On Jan 3, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote:
Hey Rich, can you confirm what is official according to you? Should the "j" be pronounced like a "j" or like an "s"?
You can hear the man himself saying it here: http://blip.tv/file/1313398/I hear no particular nod in his pronunciation to the letter being "j" rather than "s".
Did you pick the name based on starting with the word "closure" and replacing the "s" with "j" for Java? It seems pretty likely, but it would be nice to have that confirmed.
I don't have any direct info on the origin. Rich did note once that just before he finalized the name, he did a Google search for it and was very pleased to see it returned no hits. Today the figure is "about 106,000".
At one point, I came up with the following as a possible rationalization for the name:
Common/Creative Lisp on Java/JVM -> Cloj -> Clojure, as a pun on closure.
--Steve
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