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Are they naming programming languages after their girlfriends and wives? :)


Janet is a reference to The Good Place https://github.com/janet-lang/janet#why-is-it-called-janet


Huh, I thought given the logo it was a reference to Janet Jetson.


https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and...

18:52


In an interview with InfoWorld in April 2012, Karpinski said of the name "Julia": "There's no good reason, really. It just seemed like a pretty name."[


Somehow I had thought it was named after Gaston Julia.

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


At least that's what he told his wife


...or themselves, you sexist!

(I jest. Three times, in fact.)


I forgot about that sorry. I know only of COBOL that is made by women all other programming languages are pretty much made by men.


Some of the earliest languages were made by women, as women were the original (human) computers and then the first programmers.


Yea true, I know they worked in Telephone Exchanges[1] but both women and men mathematicians were first "computers" for example Alan Turing[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma


Smalltalk was definitely created by women (and men, too). That has affected many other languages, including objective-c.


Ada is named after a (the first) programmer… not somebody’s wife, daughter or sister.


There seems to be a slight controversy https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/visionaries/ada-l...

(don't ask me how reliable that source is)


It's very interesting, thanks for the link!

But it does not change the point. People who created Ada believed that Ada Lovelice was the first programmer and named the language after her. So it's not named after "somebody's girlfriend". The fact that they were probably mistaken does not change this. It she was brilliant anyway, even if not the first programmer.




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