Why is this language called Julia?

[Kalinni Gorzkis]

I think it refers to the Julia fractal set.

[Steve Mardenfeld]

Well, Julia is Stefan Karpinski's middle name, so I always just read between the lines...

[Steven G. Johnson]

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.

[Stefan Karpinski]

It's like a much less traumatic version of "A Boy Named Sue".

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Benjamin Silbaugh <ben.si...@gmail.com> wrote:

Now I can understand why he feels the need to wear a Viking helmet :c)