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Is the name "Julia" anything to do with Julia sets in mathematics?
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On 14 February 2012, the team launched a website with a blog post explaining the language's mission. In an interview with InfoWorld in April 2012, Karpinski said of the name "Julia": "There's no good reason, really. It just seemed like a pretty name."
Julia is a high-level, dynamic programming language, designed to give users the speed of C/C++ while remaining as easy to use as Python. This means that developers can solve problems faster and more effectively. Julia is great for computational complex problems.
Julia is an open source project with over 1,000 contributors. It is made available under the MIT license. The source code is available on GitHub.
Julia is the feminine form of the Roman family name, Julius, which derives from the name of the mythological Roman god, Jupiter. Jupiter presided over the heavens and light, and was responsible for the protection and laws of the Roman state. Julia can also mean "youthful," a derivative of the Latin word "iuvenale."
No. See this post on the mailing list:
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.
and on quora:
Jeff Bezanson's friend suggested it, and they just went along with the name.
This quora post also mentions that this is again stated by Jeff and Stefan on video, which I think is this one (though there is no transcript, I also recall the same thing).
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