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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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 81 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Pete_topkevinbottom@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheSalarian@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

There actually is a fish Shell

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 year ago

Don't forget about .bat

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There's also OCamel and Julia.

[–] choss@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago
[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 35 points 1 year ago

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

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] bricked@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PHP is also named after an animal.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] take6056@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago
[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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

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

/s

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

Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

That reminds me... Oh, Caml.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 35 points 1 year ago
[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

JavaScript is not named after an animal

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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[–] abcd@feddit.org 17 points 1 year ago

What about a GOpher?

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

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

also cowball for the artistic license.

[–] halvar@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

What about Lolcat?

kthxbye

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 12 points 1 year ago
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