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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
.. javascript ???
I wonder if people that JavaScript is indirectly named from an ethnic group in Indonesia.
Javanese ethnic -> Java Island -> Javanese coffee -> Java programming language -> JavaScript
Is based on the Java island coffee, the preferred variation of James Gosling. This is why the Java logo is a cup of coffee.
Edit: I made that up, but looks like it's true?
I'm surprised there aren't more languages labelled after highly addictive stimulants
I heard Ritchie called it C after creating it during one of Bell Labs' famous coke parties.
/s
What about Lolcat?
kthxbye
Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.
Pascal, too.
Haskell
C shell
By the C shore
If someone hasn't made a garbage collector for C and called it C Shore, they need to get on it asap
Don't forget about .bat
llama?
What about a GOpher?
Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺
That reminds me... Oh, Caml.
What about
Python isn’t named after an animal it’s named after a comedy troupe, which is a group of animals
Python, Spam, IDLE.
Monte Python have a lot to answer for.
Until recently, thought it was also named after Pythagoras, with the snake being a double meaning.
fun fact: Pythagoras was named after the snake god Glycon.
(this is not true)
Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It's named after the comedy group Monty Python's Flying Circus.
oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.
...fish ???
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Am I being dense? I don't get it.
I'm fairly certain this is a reference to a joke tweet interaction that went something like
But nobody finished the end of the interaction or it wasn't in the screenshot.
JavaScript is not named after an animal
It's complicated. It's sort of colony animal, like a slime mold or a portuguese man-o-war. Either way, you shouldn't touch it.
Yes, indeed, I see javascripts in the wild every day.
Nah, it's not a programming language.
It's a tool for degenerates (said the kid who grew up rotting his brain with vbscript)
Am professional js dev, can confirm. Have maximum brain rot.
skibidi
Eh, whatever. It puts food on the table...
I'm not judging, I know the pain
It's not even that much of a pain. I'm mostly dealing with TypeScript, very rarely vanilla JavaScript, and it's even enjoyable most of the time.
If I'm not wrong python is named after Monty python TV show and not after a animal
Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)
PHP is also named after an animal.
Pretty huge penguin
Penis
Penis Huge Penguin?
That's the one. Tux fux
There's also OCamel and Julia.
Ocaml stands for "Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language", so it's pronounced like "Camel" but not named after it, unfortunately