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

.. javascript ???

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

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

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

There's also OCamel and Julia.

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

Julia is an animal?

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

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

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

And Ada

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ocaml stands for "Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language", so it's pronounced like "Camel" but not named after it, unfortunately

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

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

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

[–] pooberbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

C shell

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

There actually is a fish Shell

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 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 2 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 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Midnitte 2 points 2 months ago

...C ???

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

...fish ???

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[–] black0ut@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Fish are not real. Salmon is a kind of bird.

What people commonly refer to as "fish" are in fact government spy drones designed to detect and stop seaweed smuggling.

(/joke)

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

What about

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

JavaScript is not named after an animal

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

OCaml ??

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago

What about Lolcat?

kthxbye

[–] abcd@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago

What about a GOpher?