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Rich Hickey picked the name Clojure partly because the name is easy to search for.

• btilly 17y ago
  Perl was chosen in part for the same reason. Long before Kibo made searching for your name on usenet famous (how many here remember Kibo?), in the early days (late 80s until the volume got too high) Larry Wall used to monitor all mentions of Perl on Usenet.
  • elblanco 17y ago
    I haven't heard that name in a very long while.
    • qohen 17y ago
      Kibo -- The man: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Parry The myth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibology The lore: http://www.kibo.com/menu.shtml http://www.kibo.com/menu.shtml
  • cstross 17y ago
    Not only do I remember Kibo; I was killfiled by Kibo ... (I feel old, now. Time to think about learning a new language.)