So what’s a short name for ‘a programmer who happens to use Clojure amongst other languages’?
So a week ago I tweeted asking for what people thought was the best name for a Clojure practitioner. I had suggested ‘clojurian’ and ‘clojurer’. I got a few responses, some of them voting for one of the two proposed names, and some of them proposing new names.
I also got responses rejecting the whole concept of a ‘clojure practitioner’ with the argument that a programmer is a programmer, regardless of the programming language used at a particular time. They consider themselves to be just ‘programmers’ since they use many different programming languages at any time and therefore they are not tied to any particular language. Fair enough. But this doesn’t really solve my problem: when I want to refer to ‘programmers who happen to use Clojure amongst other languages’ I would like it to use a shorter name than ‘programmers who…’
So here are the (extended) options again, in case you want to cast your vote (in the form of a comment on this post):
- Clojurian
- Clojurer
- Clojeur
- Clojurist
- Programmer
Cast your vote!
9 Comments to “So what’s a short name for ‘a programmer who happens to use Clojure amongst other languages’?”
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I was all about Clojurian until I saw Clojeur. Problem is, Clojeur may require elucidation.
Clojeur sounds cool!
My vote in on Clojurian.
Saying that ‘a programmer is just a programmer’ is not very constructive, as we’re looking for the term which makes Clojurians distinct.
Are you a Clojurian? That tells me whether or not you can be trusted to write Clojure code.
Are you a programmer? tells me nothing.
/Lau
I’ll go for programmer, even though I like the sound of clojurian, but clojure programmer is enough for me. Clojure has a weird pronunciation, then adding some more suffixes, just makes it weirder, but that is just me.
i personally like “clojard”, derived from the french http://www.thefreedictionary.com/clochard. expresses both the grass-roots level of current innovation and near-term income levels of some practitioners.
Clojeur sounds like an epithet, like “poseur.” (Reminds me of Poetaster.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetaster
Then again, it fits phrases like “Coffee is for clojeurs!”
Clojure may not be a multi-paradigm language, but why not have multi-names? Depending on my mood, I might use clojard (nice catch!), clojuser, clonjurer…
I thought Clojurians was a done deal 8)
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/313989/-z_programming_languages_clojure?pp=3
By the way, nobody is just a programmer, so I don’t see how being a Clojurian precludes having affinity for other languages 8)
Oh, I missed this one! I guess if Rhich Hickey says it is ‘Clojurian’ and most of the voters voted for ‘Cojurian’ too (by a small margin, I must say), then Clojurian is the word :)
Clojurist