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Re:Think twice before naming your new programming language by justlearning on Saturday August 22, 2009 @06:34AM (#779222)
eg of what I think of a badly named language.* I think * clojure is a sorry name for the fascinating language it is.

In the words of Rich Hickey - It's a ploy on closures and is supposed to be pronounced as cloSSure (and the domain was available; fulfilled his requirements of combining c for clr, j for java). Many have been spelling it as cloJure, even stuart halloway(author of the only book available on clojure) has couple of podcasts with cloJure pronounced with the emphasis on J.

my little rant aside, the name(in context to the article) is instant seo juice. input just one word and google spits everything clojure, no distractions from random links.

I have taken a mid way to pronounce clojure - clozure.

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