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

.. javascript ???

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 146 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.

[–] HStone32@lemmy.world 79 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 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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[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 143 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] Hope@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 101 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

C shell

[–] Pete_topkevinbottom@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

By the C shore

[–] TheSalarian@lemmy.world 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

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago

There actually is a fish Shell

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 79 points 2 weeks ago

Don't forget about .bat

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 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

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Python, Spam, IDLE.

Monte Python have a lot to answer for.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 61 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

There's also OCamel and Julia.

[–] choss@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago

And Ada

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Julia is an animal?

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 30 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 50 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_(programming_language)

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.ponylang.io/

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_3D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Programming_Language

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

PHP is also named after an animal.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 69 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty huge penguin

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Penis

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Penis Huge Penguin?

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[–] bricked@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

...fish ???

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[–] Magister@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago

That reminds me... Oh, Caml.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pascal, too.

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[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 32 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

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 17 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?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] SexyVetra@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

They tried making SpeedScript but big programming decided it was too fast for its time and shut it down

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 31 points 2 weeks ago

OCaml ??

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 24 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.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

JavaScript is not named after an animal

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 12 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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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

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[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

also cowball for the artistic license.

[–] abcd@feddit.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

What about a GOpher?

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Javalina 🐗

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 13 points 2 weeks ago

Ook!

[–] halvar@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Chicken?

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

What about Lolcat?

kthxbye

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