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As if it's somehow common?

The main other known examples ares Julia and Ada (which is in honor of a real person).

The Tiobe index of top-100 languages doesn't have even one female name apart from the above and a language called Alice -- so, like, 3 in 100. In the past there was also Miranda and a couple others. Nowhere near the 5% of names.

For the complaint to even be remotely justifiable female names should have been around 30% or more of programming language names...



The creators are coy about it, for all we know Julia could be named after Gaston Julia. Or at least, that's what I assumed when it came out.


IIRC Gaston Julia is indeed the official namesake. Unsurprising, given Julia's target audience.




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