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

.. javascript ???

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 147 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks 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] 14 points 2 weeks ago

There actually is a fish Shell

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago

Don't forget about .bat

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Python, Spam, IDLE.

Monte Python have a lot to answer for.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

There's also OCamel and Julia.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

PHP is also named after an animal.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks 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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

That reminds me... Oh, Caml.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

JavaScript is not named after an animal

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

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

also cowball for the artistic license.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

What about a GOpher?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

What about Lolcat?

kthxbye

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