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

jstx1 5y ago
https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and-Jeff-Bezanson-Julia-Programming-Language https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and... 18:52
iddan 5y ago
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."[
- skohan 5y ago
  At least that's what he told his wife
- arunix 5y ago
  Somehow I had thought it was named after Gaston Julia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Julia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Julia
Crestwave 5y ago
Janet is a reference to The Good Place https://github.com/janet-lang/janet#why-is-it-called-janet https://github.com/janet-lang/janet#why-is-it-called-janet
- ModernMech 5y ago
  Huh, I thought given the logo it was a reference to Janet Jetson.
raffraffraff 5y ago
...or themselves, you sexist! (I jest. Three times, in fact.)
- mrkramer 5y ago
  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.
  - elondaits 5y ago
    Ada is named after a (the first) programmer… not somebody’s wife, daughter or sister.
    - andi999 5y ago
      There seems to be a slight controversy https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/visionaries/ada-lovelace-original-and-visionary-but-no-programmer/ https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/visionaries/ada-l... (don't ask me how reliable that source is)
      - IlliOnato 5y ago
        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.
  - ModernMech 5y ago
    Some of the earliest languages were made by women, as women were the original (human) computers and then the first programmers.
    - mrkramer 5y ago
      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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and-Jeff-Bezanson-Julia-Programming-Language https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/Stefan-Karpinski-and... 18:52

iddan 5y ago

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."[

skohan 5y ago
At least that's what he told his wife
arunix 5y ago
Somehow I had thought it was named after Gaston Julia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Julia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_Julia

Crestwave 5y ago

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

ModernMech 5y ago
Huh, I thought given the logo it was a reference to Janet Jetson.

raffraffraff 5y ago

...or themselves, you sexist! (I jest. Three times, in fact.)

mrkramer 5y ago
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.
- elondaits 5y ago
  Ada is named after a (the first) programmer… not somebody’s wife, daughter or sister.
  - andi999 5y ago
    There seems to be a slight controversy https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/visionaries/ada-lovelace-original-and-visionary-but-no-programmer/ https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/technology/visionaries/ada-l... (don't ask me how reliable that source is)
    - IlliOnato 5y ago
      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.
- ModernMech 5y ago
  Some of the earliest languages were made by women, as women were the original (human) computers and then the first programmers.
  - mrkramer 5y ago
    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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma