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I bet he probably meant "Overtone" the music programming language / environment based on Clojure.

Though octave was originally a music term too.



The people named Octave are not named after music. It's just a variation of Octavius.


Actually Octavius itself derives from the latin for "eight" (octavus, which is were the music term also got it name).


Yes, of course, but the number eight means more than just music.

Sorry, it's a pet peeve of mine that people keep thinking that GNU Octave has something to do with music.




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