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Ah, gotcha. Maybe it didn't initially say "Julia Lang"; it does now, perhaps thanks to your comment.

Hehe no. It said "Julia Lang v0.7" but I'm not insider enough to think of Julia the language when I read that. I wondered "Who is Julia Lang? Hmm must be some software?" etc

I'd think that most regular readers of Hacker News would naturally interpret "____ Lang" as referring to a programming language, but clearly there's some ambigutity.

I would have the opposite problem; if a Hacker News item was titled "Fred Lang Has Died", my first thought would be: "I didn't even know there was a programming language called Fred. It must have died from obscurity." :-)

I guess the problem is with the name Julia, which is lovely but you have to specify that you mean the language—no-one ever mistakes what "C++" refers to.

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