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		ynniv on Nov 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Closure Tools Thats a terrible argument... He did indeed "announce Clojure to the world" before Google did, and now we all associate the phonetic name with him. Treat "closure" as a project name and pick a different product name, Google.

s3graham on Nov 6, 2009 [–]

What about http://www.clozure.com/clozurecl.html? I believe it was Clozure before Clojure was released (but I could be wrong).

mahmud on Nov 6, 2009 | [–]

How about the Closure web browser which predates both Clozure and Clojure?

http://www.cliki.net/Closure

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