On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Dan <redalas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So, as a long-time .NET guy, IronClojure seems like the best name, > in > > terms of making it obvious what it does: it's like IronRuby/Python, > > but it's Clojure. Failing that, it seems like NClojure fits the > > pattern of other JVM-ported efforts. I realize that there's > already an > > Enclojure. > > > > Just to throw more chaff into the air: > > > > * CoCLR: Clojure on the CLR. (Maybe pronounced cochlear?) > > * Coc: Same as above. > > * CoNET: Clojure on .NET. > > * Icon: An Implementation of Clojure on .NET. > > There is an existing programming language named Icon, developed by > Ralph Griswold (the same guy who developed SNOBOL). Icon has been > around for decades, and is an interesting language in its own right. > > > * Ichor: I can't think of an acronym here, but I want to. :) > > > As far as I understood, the rules are that it should be derived from > Clojure and sports either an N or a CLR. So I suggest Conjure > > It looks like clojure, sounds pleasing, and sounds lispish (conj). > And Lisp to me sounds like magic (in the Arthur C. Clarke meaning > that it is a technology sufficiently advanced that it is > indistinguishable from it). >
+1 Does the following seem correct? The language is Clojure, it's canonical implementation is on the JVM. All other implementations are also Clojure. Leaving out Clojure from the implementation name may encourage a "one language, many implementations" notion. Not saying that's desirable, only pointing it out. -Matt > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
