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Some historical language names that are also first names: * JOSS - male - 1966 * Pascal - male - 1970 * Ada - female - 1983 * Perl
by Y_Y 5y ago
Some 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.