Not related to or compatible with Common Lisp, so no. Pretty sure its not an acronym. Closures are a commonly used concept in functional programming, so it isn't mysterious where it came from. Just drop a J in there for Javaness.
On Jan 3, 9:05 pm, Ed <edwilson...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been wanting to know the same thing...I was guessing Clojure > was an acronym for: Common_Lisp_Object_Java_?something?_?something?_? > something?, or possibly Concurrency_Language_OnThe_JVM_?something?_? > something?_?something?...I am dying to know. Or, like others have > cited, Closure en Francais 'Clojure'....what does the name stand for > and mean? > > Can somebody post the history of the language, what the name means, > how it was chosen, were there any working names for the language > before it was called Clojure....etc. Is the inventor a Seattle > Seahawks fan, the colors of the Clojure Icon suggest so. > > Thanks...happy hackin' --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
