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

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[–] 151 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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    [–] 151 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago

    Don't forget about .bat

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  • [–] 79 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

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    [–] 65 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    There's also OCamel and Julia.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    PHP is also named after an animal.

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (7 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

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 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?

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    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    What about a GOpher?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

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

    also cowball for the artistic license.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    What about Lolcat?

    kthxbye

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