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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If I'm not wrong python is named after Monty python TV show and not after a animal
Python isn’t named after an animal it’s named after a comedy troupe, which is a group of animals
There's also OCamel and Julia.
Julia is an animal?
...fish ???
PHP is also named after an animal.
Pretty huge penguin
Penis Huge Penguin?
Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.
Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺
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.
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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.
Am I being dense? I don't get it.
JavaScript is not named after an animal
Yes, indeed, I see javascripts in the wild every day.
i think there's something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.
also cowball for the artistic license.
Chicken?
Javalina 🐗
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