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

.. javascript ???

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 149 points 2 months 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 80 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Adda@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 months 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 145 points 2 months 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 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months 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 months ago (2 children)

C shell

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

By the C shore

[–] TheSalarian@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months 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 13 points 2 months ago

There actually is a fish Shell

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

Don't forget about .bat

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months 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 months ago

Python, Spam, IDLE.

Monte Python have a lot to answer for.

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

There's also OCamel and Julia.

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

And Ada

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

Julia is an animal?

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

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

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

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

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

https://www.ponylang.io/

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 months ago (2 children)

PHP is also named after an animal.

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

Pretty huge penguin

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

Penis

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

Penis Huge Penguin?

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

...fish ???

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

Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.

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

Pascal, too.

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

Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺

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

That reminds me... Oh, Caml.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 months 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 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] SexyVetra@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months 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 months 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 months ago

OCaml ??

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months 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 months ago (2 children)

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

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

JavaScript is not named after an animal

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

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

What about a GOpher?

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

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

also cowball for the artistic license.

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

Javalina 🐗

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

Ook!

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

Chicken?

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

What about Lolcat?

kthxbye

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