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What is with new programming languages with women's names? It seems a bit cringey to me, like the guy in my first-year cs classes who would name variables afte
by skohan 5y ago
What is with new programming languages with women's names? It seems a bit cringey to me, like the guy in my first-year cs classes who would name variables after his girlfriend.
- skinkestek 5y agoIf you name it after men you get even more problems.
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- ModernMech 5y agoDylan, Haskell, Erlang, Pascal, etc. What’s the problem either way?
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- skinkestek 5y agoThese are older so I guess that is why. And no, no problem with me. I just pointed out one reason why people might prefer a female name for a project. Another valid reason might be because they want to bring some women into the spotlight in what is ofte perceived as a male dominated field.
- booleandilemma 5y agoAt least people aren’t naming their daughters after programming languages yet.
- skohan 5y agoTell that to my friend BASIC
- vletal 5y agoAnd their buddy CPP.
- ibraheemdev 5y agoRuby.
- IncRnd 5y agoThat's like people getting tattoos showing the name of their favorite programming language. Those always get covered over with MOM.
- Y_Y 5y agoSome historical language names that are also first names: * JOSS - male - 1966 * Pascal - male - 1970 * Ada - female - 1983 * Perl - both - 1988 * Haskell - male - 1990 * Lua - female - 1993 * Ruby - female - 1995 * Delphi - female - 1995 * Julia - female - 2011 Honorable mention: Erlang is a (male) god in Chinese Buddhism. Some caveats apply. Many language names are also surnames, I leave that to future work. See also: Beryllium
- CyberDildonics 5y agoLua means 'Moon' in Portuguese
- Aeronwen 5y agoI remember a HN post where someone talked about naming their daughter Lua. They liked the name when they first heard it, and being a programming language was just a nerdy bonus. Telling their wife that it means 'moon' in Portuguese made it an easy sell.
- sltkr 5y agoJoss: can be either male or female, as a nickname for Joseph or Jocelyn (think: Joss Whedon, Joss Stone) Perl: doesn't strike me as a name at all, and the language name definitely wasn't referencing it (more likely a reference to the shell). Lua: doesn't strike me as a name either, and the language was named for the moon. Ruby: is a girl's name, but the language was named for the precious stone. Delphi: is the name of a city, though it does reference the (female) Oracle of Delphi (the language was designed to make Oracle databases accessible).
- Y_Y 5y agoMy criterion for the list was whether or not I could find a well-known person with the given word as their birth name.