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Julia is named for her as much as it is for anyone. RIP. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(pro
by benatkin 1y ago
Julia is named for her as much as it is for anyone. RIP. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)
- metaphor 1y agoNope[1]: > Is Julia named after someone or something? > No. [1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/faq/#General https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/faq/#General
- bethekind 1y ago> ...as much as it is for anyone.... The phrasing in this sentence implies that the Julia language could be named for the code breaker, as much as it could be named for anyone else. In other words, it wasn't named for the code breaker, but it might as well have been. The follow up comment gives hard quantitative fact that the language wasn't named for anyone or anything. I can see how both comments are correct, the first implicitly, the second explicitly
- setr 1y agoThe first comment is, at best, pointing out a name collision. It's otherwise fairly meaningless yet misleading. Julia could be named for any Julia in the known universe... but it wasn't.