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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
… javascript ???
Chicken?
Armed Bear in the same vein
Chicken.
What about Lolcat?
kthxbye
Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.
Pascal, too.
Haskell
There’s also OCamel and Julia.
Ocaml stands for “Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language”, so it’s pronounced like “Camel” but not named after it, unfortunately
And Ada
Julia is an animal?
Yea, Julia is the name of the squirrel that routinely exploits my bird feeder.
Yeah, there’s a bunch of humans called Julia.
Yes, under the right circumstances she can be.
If I’m not wrong python is named after Monty python TV show and not after a animal
I’m not sure, but I think that might have been part of the joke, seeing all the comments here.
Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)
…Similar to pythons, which happen to be animals as well.
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.
…fish ???
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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)
llama?
Am I being dense? I don’t get it.
JavaScript is not named after an animal
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.
I’m fairly certain this is a reference to a joke tweet interaction that went something like
- Fun fact: Oranges are the only fruit named after a color
- Star fruit?
- Close! That is a shape, not a color!
But nobody finished the end of the interaction or it wasn’t in the screenshot.
Javalina 🐗
☕️🐗
PHP is also named after an animal.
Pretty huge penguin
Penis
Penis Huge Penguin?
That’s the one. Tux fux
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
Is based on the Java island coffee, the preferred variation of James Gosling. This is why the Java logo is a cup of coffee.
I’m surprised there aren’t more languages labelled after highly addictive stimulants
I heard Ritchie called it C after creating it during one of Bell Labs’ famous coke parties.
/s
and Julia? Well we all know what Julia is slang for
…C ???
They tried making SpeedScript but big programming decided it was too fast for its time and shut it down
Java was named after the Javanese, and not the other way around?
Ook!
Yes, indeed, I see javascripts in the wild every day.
Nah, it’s not a programming language.
It’s a tool for degenerates (said the kid who grew up rotting his brain with vbscript)
Am professional js dev, can confirm. Have maximum brain rot.
skibidi
Eh, whatever. It puts food on the table…
I’m not judging, I know the pain
It’s not even that much of a pain. I’m mostly dealing with TypeScript, very rarely vanilla JavaScript, and it’s even enjoyable most of the time.
