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Even Algol could be considered indirectly named after a mathematician: Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī → latinised as Algoritmi → Algorithm → Algorithmic Languag
by messe 4y ago
Even Algol could be considered indirectly named after a mathematician: Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī → latinised as Algoritmi → Algorithm → Algorithmic Language → Algol.
- ianai 4y agoNaming stuff after the discoverer/scientist/etc absolutely is a thing across every discipline I’ve ran into.
- 082349872349872 4y agoExcept computer languages are not named after their designers[0] but as a tribute. Not in the Algol family: Haskell In the Algol (indeed Euclid) family: Turing As yet vaporware(?): Noether [0] generally, anyway: AWK is infamous; and I have some suspicions about CPL and MCPL ... once may be coincidence, but twice? Also, what about Popplestone's POP-n languages? ... and the "Wolfram Language" should be no surprise to anyone who's read the eponym's book.
- cestith 4y agoMany languages are named after people, groups of people, animals, and companies including fictional or mythological characters. Some of them are indirect, being named after something else named after the person/beast/character. Alice, Babbage, Curry, Dylan, Eiffel, FAUST, Gödel, Hume, Idris, Joule, Karel, Lua, Mercury, Nemmerle, Orwell, Python, Sather, Turing, WATFOR, Yorick, and Zeno to my understanding all named after people, groups of people, companies, gods, etc. Then there are others besides Wolfram Language named after one or more contributors, like awk. There are animals, plants, and gemstones - Zebra, Ant, Perl, the older Pearl, Ruby, Crystal, Elm, Oak, Maple (to represent Canadians, so kind of a two-fer), Emerald, Cobra, Mouse... I don't know that anything is peculiar to the Modula family here.
- sharikous 4y agoWouldn't python be in the animal family rather than the people/companies/gods?
- jimmux 4y agoI believe it's named after Monty Python, if that counts as people.
- cestith 4y agohttps://pythongeeks.org/what-is-python-programming-language/ https://pythongeeks.org/what-is-python-programming-language/ (among many other sources) says it's inspired by Monty Python and their show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Monty Python being a comedy troupe similar to Broken Lizard or Kids in the Hall, I thought they'd qualify squarely as a group of people. Note the language itself is highly influenced by Modula-3 and ABC. ABC was a form of Basic not to many people remember these days that among its features had significant leading whitespace for statement grouping. So you can't blame/credit Guido entirely for that one.
- sidpatil 4y agoHeh. I always thought it was named after the star system [1]. Never knew. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol