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

.. javascript ???

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[-] [email protected] 151 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 81 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 151 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

There actually is a fish Shell

[-] [email protected] 81 points 10 months ago

Don't forget about .bat

[-] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Python, Spam, IDLE.

Monte Python have a lot to answer for.

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[-] [email protected] 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's also OCamel and Julia.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

PHP is also named after an animal.

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago

Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

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

/s

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

That reminds me... Oh, Caml.

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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.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

JavaScript is not named after an animal

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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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[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

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

also cowball for the artistic license.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

What about a GOpher?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

What about Lolcat?

kthxbye

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