Also Pascal and Haskell.

R is named partly after its initial developers, Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka (https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Why-is-R-named...).

Erlang is named after the mathematician Erlang, but also as an abbreviation for "Ericsson Language".

Julia isn't named after anyone in particular. The founders claim it was "just a nice name".

I would've associated it with Julia fractals.

That was not an inspiration according to the language creators.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

What is turbo and who is it named after? I know it's a name but I don't know of anyone with that name who is notable other than like one unpopular saint.

There was a Roman general called Quintus Marcius Turbo.

https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/97801993...

I was attempting a "turbo pascal" joke

Ah, right, the less famous brother of Blaise Pascal.

Nah, it was his nickname, Blaise "Turbo" Pascal, because he was blaising fast.

Fun fact: Google's original build system was written in Turbo Pascal, though they had to tweak the name due to copyrights or something.

A competing system, Judge "Haskell" Alsup, was unfortunately shot down by lawyers.

Not to forget Linda, named by a scientist nowadays more interested in bewailing the decline of traditional values than in celebrating it.

From there you can branch out to software named after people, like MySQL.