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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
.. javascript ???
Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It's named after the comedy group Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.
While I disagree with you, this made me chuckle. A great joke. Wish you all the best.
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If I'm not wrong python is named after Monty python TV show and not after a animal
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.
I'm not sure, but I think that might have been part of the joke, seeing all the comments here.
C shell
By the C shore
If someone hasn't made a garbage collector for C and called it C Shore, they need to get on it asap
There actually is a fish Shell
Don't forget about .bat
Python isn’t named after an animal it’s named after a comedy troupe, which is a group of animals
Python, Spam, IDLE.
Monte Python have a lot to answer for.
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There's also OCamel and Julia.
And Ada
Julia is an animal?
Yeah, there's a bunch of humans called Julia.
Yea, Julia is the name of the squirrel that routinely exploits my bird feeder.
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Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.
Pascal, too.
Haskell
Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺
That reminds me... Oh, Caml.
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.
Edit: I made that up, but looks like it's true?
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
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OCaml ??
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.
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.
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What about a GOpher?
i think there's something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.
also cowball for the artistic license.
Ook!
What about Lolcat?
kthxbye
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