Hacker News Reader

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."[

View on HN

Somehow I had thought it was named after Gaston Julia.

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

At least that's what he told his wife

Reply on news.ycombinator.com