> > Alan Edelman told me specifically that it was not named after the fractal, > and in fact that "Julia" doesn't refer to anything in particular. > Apparently, it just came up in a random conversation years ago when someone > suggested arbitrarily that "Julia" would be a good name for a programming > language. >
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/6xEWQz_mK10/XrCkLV-7O_sJ This should probably go in a FAQ somewhere. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Pileas <phoebus.apollo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a specific reason you guys chose this name? > > It kinda reminds me Linux Mint where each distro. has a girl's name ... >
