Comments on: So what’s a short name for ‘a programmer who happens to use Clojure amongst other languages’?

By: knoonan

knoonan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:59:51 +0000

Clojurist

By: tbatchelli

tbatchelli — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:16:29 +0000

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 :)

By: Jeff Heon

Jeff Heon — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:10:07 +0000

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)

By: tjg

tjg — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:42:33 +0000

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…

By: fmu

fmu — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:52:27 +0000

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.

By: tony

tony — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:33:49 +0000

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.

By: Lau B. Jensen

Lau B. Jensen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:21:52 +0000

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

By: TwoSheds

TwoSheds — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:00:27 +0000

Clojeur sounds cool!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:23:26 +0000

I was all about Clojurian until I saw Clojeur. Problem is, Clojeur may require elucidation.