Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

Ada, Alice...

Interesting question, but it might just be a yellow volkswagon effect. Quickly looking at Wikipedia's list of languages, theres Babbage, Bertrand, Cecil, Darwin, Dylan, Escher, Euclid, Euler, Godel, Hume, Orwell, Tom, Zeno, and probably a few others I missed.

EDIT: Haskell and Pascal, how embarassing to miss those




It is interesting that female-named languages from your examples generally use first-name, while male-named languages generally use surname.


I was first introduced to programming with Pascal, can't believe I forgot about it until I saw your list.


> Haskell and Pascal, how embarassing to miss those

and Curry, while we're at it, https://curry-lang.org/


also Haskell and Pascal


It's a shame that Haskell Brooks Curry did not have any more names because all three of his names have already been used for programming languages by now.


I also like to believe PageRank was named after Larry Page.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: