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Can we please get some variety in the word "Closure"? This is kind of getting out of hand:

Closure (the construct)

Closure (Google's thing)

Clojure (lisp dialect)

ClojureScript (converts Clojure to JS)

Clozure CL (another lisp dialect)

Every single time I say one of these out loud, I have to explain myself. Ugh.

Clozure Associates was established in 2000, well before any similarly named product.
In fairness, though, ClozureCL was OpenMCL until 2007, the same year Clojure came out. So Rich Hickey and Clozure probably each had no idea that the other was about to name a Lisp almost the exact sam thing.
> Can we please get some variety in the word "Closure"?

Or we could just agree not to use the name for programming things any more. Thus getting, you know, closure. :-)