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There are plenty of tools without female names. More than tools with female names (off the top of my head)

I don't know if letters can be considered as gendered. Anyway, there are some feminine nouns: Lua (moon, feminine in Portuguese), Cassandra, Miranda, MariaDB, Clara Rules (off the top of my head too).

Gendered "feminine nouns" doesn't mean anything if they're from another language like German or Portuguese.

In those languages almost half of nouns are gendered, that doesn't make it a "female's name".

Julia.

Ada

Ruby is a female name, at least in my country.

Ruby was named after the gemstone. From the Ruby FAQ:

> "1.3 Why the name 'Ruby'?"

> "Influenced by Perl, Matz wanted to use a jewel name for his new language, so he named Ruby after a colleague's birthstone."

> "Later, he realized that Ruby comes right after Perl in several situations. In birthstones, pearl is June, ruby is July. When measuring font sizes, pearl is 5pt, ruby is 5.5pt. He thought Ruby was a good name for a programming language newer (and hopefully better) than Perl."

https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html

It's not the female names, it's the lack of male names.

There are no lack of programming languages named after males, but as they tend to use the last names (Pascal, Haskell, Occam, Curry, Darwin, Dylan, Orwell, etc) while those named after females tend to use first names this might not be obvious.

Haskell was the first name of Haskell Curry.

Indeed, sorry about that!

Haskell, Oberon, Mercury, Euclid, Turing, Pascal, Idris, Draco

They exist, I'm not sure how the ratios stack up. I suspect both are outnumbered by acronyms. Some projects get named after their partners or children.

Also Franz Lisp, and in the esoteric bucket: Piet, ArnoldC and Shakespeare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Lisp

Why should I be forced to name my own product in some way? I think I should be free to name it any way I want and I shouldn't be punished for the irrelevant society's fault to produce enough male-named programming languages.

Haskell, Idris

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