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Pascal was not Blaisingly fast.
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They meant to name Haskell the programming language Curry at first, but the proposal was struk down because of the potential association with Tim Curry.

https://youtu.be/LnX3B9oaKzw?t=3m6s

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Also his middle name Brook
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While there is https://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/brookgpu/lang.html, I see no indication it was named after him.
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Lovelace would be a great language name someone should use it.
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cursory glance: http://lovelace-lang.org/ is even free
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