People with programming languages named after them:

Haskell Curry
Ada Lovelace
Agner Erlang
Blaise Pascal
Taylor Swift

Welcome! Have your first ++. Taylor Swift. Wut? lol

Taylor Swift?

I'm making my own language and will call it Amber heard

Taylor Swift... Great.

Now I'm going to have to write a new language called Trump. It'll be a modification of brainfuck where the operators are all replaced by different font sizes of the word "bigly"... Comic sans of course.

Ok, I whant to make a new language toooo....
Gonna Call it Miau, like Caw

Miau miau miau?Miau MIau MIAUUUU

Miau + MIAU = miaus

@RodrigoF swift.. y'know.. ios language?

@RevThwack and a new data type ... yuge int...

I'm done writing gitpush.js framework if this counts

You missed 'Greg HyperText-Markup-Language' and 'Amanda Hypertext-Preprocessor'. Great people.

Monty Python

Can't wait for a language named Joscelyne. If you know the reference then we are best friends already

@Huuugo But in the case of Python it's vice versa. Python is named after Monty Python

@ThinkBigDev
1. Read first post again
2. Search for a palm 🌴 to put on your face 😔

@Huuugo 🌴➡🤔
I'm sorry

Or this guy called Java Script.

Assem Bly

Scala McKenzie

Katie Rust

Cecil Sharp
Patrick H. Pope
Ruby Wax

@silkfire Is Wax the maiden name of O'Reils?

MySQL & MariaDB are named after two sisters My and Maria (not kidding).

Kotlin is named after Kotlin Island in Russia

1. Ruby Tuesday
2. C.S. Lewis
3. Blaise Pascal
4. Fortran and many years ago...

@RevThwack haha too late TrumpScript (a flavor of Python) was made by some Rice students. All numbers must be greater than 1 million😂

Linus Torvalds actually named the whole Linux after himself 😂 although it's not specifically any programming language

More Python?

Dennis RitC

why would they name a programming language, Swift from a singer's name....??? like is their even any connection between a programmer and a singer????? strange....

I wonder who will be next to have their own programming lang has musk already got one?