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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

JavaScript is not named after an animal

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] JackbyDev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.