[doodpants]

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." :-)

[yesenadam]

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.