Very likely Julia was a significant person in that someone's mind.
Perhaps we should find out who she was.
On 2014年11月25日 06:28, Isaiah Norton wrote:
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.
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