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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
… javascript ???
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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.
Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.
Pascal, too.
Haskell
Chicken?
Chicken.
Armed Bear in the same vein
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.
There’s also OCamel and Julia.
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.
Ocaml stands for “Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language”, so it’s pronounced like “Camel” but not named after it, unfortunately
i think there’s something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.
also cowball for the artistic license.
C shell
There actually is a fish 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
Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺
That reminds me… Oh, Caml.
PHP is also named after an animal.
Pretty huge penguin
Penis
Penis Huge Penguin?
That’s the one. Tux fux
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.
Ook!
Don’t forget about
.batFun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It’s named after the comedy group Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
*indirectly named after an animal…
oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.
More of a tragicomedy, really
While I disagree with you, this made me chuckle. A great joke. Wish you all the best.
…fish ???
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)
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