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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
… javascript ???
Am I being dense? I don’t get 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.
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.
Chicken?
Chicken.
Armed Bear in the same vein
What about a GOpher?
What about Lolcat?
kthxbye
Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺
That reminds me… Oh, Caml.
…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)
Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.
Pascal, too.
Haskell
OCaml ??
llama?
Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It’s named after the comedy group Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
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.
More of a tragicomedy, really
*indirectly named after an animal…
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.
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
Java was named after the Javanese, and not the other way around?
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
They tried making SpeedScript but big programming decided it was too fast for its time and shut it down
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 ???
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
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)
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.
Am professional js dev, can confirm. Have maximum brain rot.
skibidi
