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> Sather: named afer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Tower And also because it is a derivative of Eiffel — whic
by Findecanor 3y ago
> Sather: named afer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Tower
And also because it is a derivative of Eiffel — which I think had been named more after the tower than the man, with the purpose of creating an analogy from software engineering to constructional engineering.
> Erlang (Ericsson language): named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson
Officially it is after the Danish mathematician Agner Krarup Erlang but we all know that is not the whole story...
Other languages named after mathematicians (in addition to others already mentioned):
Euclid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid_(programming_language)
Occam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_(programming_language)
Gödel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_(programming_langua...