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Why is the name of the language, "Clojure"?
I googled a bit, asked in #clojure. So far, no luck.
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Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures.
Clojure runs on the Java platform and as a result, integrates with Java and fully supports calling Java code from Clojure, and Clojure code can be called from Java, too. The community uses tools like Leiningen for project automation, providing support for Maven integration.
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, wanted to make written programs simple. This helps to speed up the software development process, as well as reduce the time needed for code understanding, changing and support. Clojure syntax can make a challenge for beginners.
Clojure was designed to be a general-purpose, practical functional language, suitable for use by professionals wherever its host language, e.g., Java, would be. Initially designed in 2005 and released in 2007, Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, but is not a direct descendant of any prior Lisp.
Rich Hickey's (He's the designer of Clojure) comment on that is the 1st reference link on wiki:
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.
The name was chosen to be unique. I wanted to involve c (c#), l (lisp) and j (java). Once I came up with Clojure, given the pun on closure, the available domains and vast emptiness of the googlespace, it was an easy decision.
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/766b75baa7987850
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