Most names of programming languages are based on nouns (e.g. Ruby, Python, Lisp, Java) or noun-like (C, C#, PHP), whereas very few are based on adjectives (only

Most names of programming languages are based on nouns (e.g. Ruby, Python, Lisp, Java) or noun-like (C, C#, PHP), whereas very few are based on adjectives (only know of Basic and Groovy) or verbs (only know of Go).