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It's not the female names, it's the lack of male names.


There are no lack of programming languages named after males, but as they tend to use the last names (Pascal, Haskell, Occam, Curry, Darwin, Dylan, Orwell, etc) while those named after females tend to use first names this might not be obvious.


Haskell was the first name of Haskell Curry.


Indeed, sorry about that!


Haskell, Oberon, Mercury, Euclid, Turing, Pascal, Idris, Draco

They exist, I'm not sure how the ratios stack up. I suspect both are outnumbered by acronyms. Some projects get named after their partners or children.


Also Franz Lisp, and in the esoteric bucket: Piet, ArnoldC and Shakespeare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lisp


Why should I be forced to name my own product in some way? I think I should be free to name it any way I want and I shouldn't be punished for the irrelevant society's fault to produce enough male-named programming languages.


Haskell, Idris




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