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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!

.. javascript ???

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[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 149 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If I'm not wrong python is named after Monty python TV show and not after a animal

[–] Hope@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

...Similar to pythons, which happen to be animals as well.

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure, but I think that might have been part of the joke, seeing all the comments here.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 148 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It's named after the comedy group Monty Python's Flying Circus.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 82 points 2 years ago (3 children)

oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.

[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 years ago

While I disagree with you, this made me chuckle. A great joke. Wish you all the best.

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[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 107 points 2 years ago (2 children)

C shell

[–] Pete_topkevinbottom@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

By the C shore

[–] TheSalarian@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

If someone hasn't made a garbage collector for C and called it C Shore, they need to get on it asap

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago

There actually is a fish Shell

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 81 points 2 years ago

Don't forget about .bat

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 80 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Python isn’t named after an animal it’s named after a comedy troupe, which is a group of animals

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

Python, Spam, IDLE.

Monte Python have a lot to answer for.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 64 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

There's also OCamel and Julia.

[–] choss@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago

And Ada

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Julia is an animal?

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 35 points 2 years ago

Yeah, there's a bunch of humans called Julia.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

Yea, Julia is the name of the squirrel that routinely exploits my bird feeder.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_(programming_language)

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 years ago

https://www.ponylang.io/

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_3D

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)

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

[–] bricked@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...fish ???

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

PHP is also named after an animal.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty huge penguin

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Penis

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Penis Huge Penguin?

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pascal, too.

[–] take6056@feddit.nl 12 points 2 years ago

Haskell

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm surprised there aren't more languages labelled after highly addictive stimulants

[–] SexyVetra@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I heard Ritchie called it C after creating it during one of Bell Labs' famous coke parties.

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[–] Magister@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago

That reminds me... Oh, Caml.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 35 points 2 years ago

OCaml ??

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

Deep in the Serengeti, we find the lonesome JavaScript. With its tendrils deep in the ground, it begins consuming thousands of tiny life forms known as “node modules” to fuel its desires.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Am I being dense? I don't get it.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

JavaScript is not named after an animal

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yes, indeed, I see javascripts in the wild every day.

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[–] abcd@feddit.org 17 points 2 years ago

What about a GOpher?

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 16 points 2 years ago

i think there's something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.

also cowball for the artistic license.

[–] halvar@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Chicken?

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[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Javalina 🐗

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago

What about Lolcat?

kthxbye

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 12 points 2 years ago

Ook!

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