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Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 9 months ago

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Why no Ada or Janet? Or Haskell or Idris?
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  Ada is in fact named after a person, thus completing the circle.
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    So are Haskell and Idris (well, if you consider a singing dragon as a person).
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      Boolean is named after George Boole so that is too, sort of

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