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Java, Python, A, B, C, C++, C#, Lisp, Go,.. There are plenty of tools without female names. More than tools with female names (off the top of my head)

cgrand-net 8y ago
I don't know if letters can be considered as gendered. Anyway, there are some feminine nouns: Lua (moon, feminine in Portuguese), Cassandra, Miranda, MariaDB, Clara Rules (off the top of my head too).
- brianberns 8y ago
  Julia.
  - froh 8y ago
    Ada
  - deleted 8y ago
    [deleted]
- coldtea 8y ago
  Gendered "feminine nouns" doesn't mean anything if they're from another language like German or Portuguese. In those languages almost half of nouns are gendered, that doesn't make it a "female's name".
nerdponx 8y ago
It's not the female names, it's the lack of male names.
- funciton 8y ago
  Haskell, Idris
- Lerc 8y ago
  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.
- jecel 8y ago
  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.
  - yawaramin 8y ago
    Haskell was the first name of Haskell Curry.
    - jecel 8y ago
      Indeed, sorry about that!
- pygy_ 8y ago
  Also Franz Lisp, and in the esoteric bucket: Piet, ArnoldC and Shakespeare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lisp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lisp
- TomMarius 8y ago
  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.
pmontra 8y ago
Ruby is a female name, at least in my country.
- grzm 8y ago
  Ruby was named after the gemstone. From the Ruby FAQ: > "1.3 Why the name 'Ruby'?" > "Influenced by Perl, Matz wanted to use a jewel name for his new language, so he named Ruby after a colleague's birthstone." > "Later, he realized that Ruby comes right after Perl in several situations. In birthstones, pearl is June, ruby is July. When measuring font sizes, pearl is 5pt, ruby is 5.5pt. He thought Ruby was a good name for a programming language newer (and hopefully better) than Perl." https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html

cgrand-net 8y ago

I don't know if letters can be considered as gendered. Anyway, there are some feminine nouns: Lua (moon, feminine in Portuguese), Cassandra, Miranda, MariaDB, Clara Rules (off the top of my head too).

brianberns 8y ago
Julia.
- froh 8y ago
  Ada
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]
coldtea 8y ago
Gendered "feminine nouns" doesn't mean anything if they're from another language like German or Portuguese. In those languages almost half of nouns are gendered, that doesn't make it a "female's name".

nerdponx 8y ago

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

funciton 8y ago
Haskell, Idris
Lerc 8y ago
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.
jecel 8y ago
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.
- yawaramin 8y ago
  Haskell was the first name of Haskell Curry.
  - jecel 8y ago
    Indeed, sorry about that!
pygy_ 8y ago
Also Franz Lisp, and in the esoteric bucket: Piet, ArnoldC and Shakespeare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lisp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lisp
TomMarius 8y ago
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.

pmontra 8y ago

Ruby is a female name, at least in my country.

grzm 8y ago
Ruby was named after the gemstone. From the Ruby FAQ: > "1.3 Why the name 'Ruby'?" > "Influenced by Perl, Matz wanted to use a jewel name for his new language, so he named Ruby after a colleague's birthstone." > "Later, he realized that Ruby comes right after Perl in several situations. In birthstones, pearl is June, ruby is July. When measuring font sizes, pearl is 5pt, ruby is 5.5pt. He thought Ruby was a good name for a programming language newer (and hopefully better) than Perl." https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html