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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
… javascript ???
Chicken?
Armed Bear in the same vein
Chicken.
What about
D
llama?
What about Lolcat?
kthxbye
What about a GOpher?
If I’m not wrong python is named after Monty python TV show and not after a animal
I’m not sure, but I think that might have been part of the joke, seeing all the comments here.
Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)
…Similar to pythons, which happen to be animals as well.
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
- Fun fact: Oranges are the only fruit named after a color
- Star fruit?
- Close! That is a shape, not a color!
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.
…fish ???
Fish are not real. Salmon is a kind of bird.
What people commonly refer to as “fish” are in fact government spy drones designed to detect and stop seaweed smuggling.
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Python isn’t named after an animal it’s named after a comedy troupe, which is a group of animals
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)
Python, Spam, IDLE.
Monte Python have a lot to answer for.
There’s also OCamel and Julia.
And Ada
Julia is an animal?
Yea, Julia is the name of the squirrel that routinely exploits my bird feeder.
Yeah, there’s a bunch of humans called Julia.
Yes, under the right circumstances she can be.
Ocaml stands for “Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language”, so it’s pronounced like “Camel” but not named after it, unfortunately
PHP is also named after an animal.
Pretty huge penguin
Penis
Penis Huge Penguin?
That’s the one. Tux fux
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)
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.
Am professional js dev, can confirm. Have maximum brain rot.
skibidi
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.
I’m surprised there aren’t more languages labelled after highly addictive stimulants
They tried making SpeedScript but big programming decided it was too fast for its time and shut it down
I heard Ritchie called it C after creating it during one of Bell Labs’ famous coke parties.
/s
and Julia? Well we all know what Julia is slang for
…C ???
Java was named after the Javanese, and not the other way around?
i think there’s something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.
also cowball for the artistic license.
Don’t forget about
.bat
