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spreading misinformation online (javascript??) (midwest.social)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

.. javascript ???

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It's named after the comedy group Monty Python's Flying Circus.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 months ago (3 children)

oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

While I disagree with you, this made me chuckle. A great joke. Wish you all the best.

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If I'm not wrong python is named after Monty python TV show and not after a animal

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

...Similar to pythons, which happen to be animals as well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure, but I think that might have been part of the joke, seeing all the comments here.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 months ago (2 children)

C shell

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

By the C shore

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

If someone hasn't made a garbage collector for C and called it C Shore, they need to get on it asap

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

There actually is a fish Shell

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago

Don't forget about .bat

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Python isn’t named after an animal it’s named after a comedy troupe, which is a group of animals

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Python, Spam, IDLE.

Monte Python have a lot to answer for.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

There's also OCamel and Julia.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

And Ada

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Julia is an animal?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Yeah, there's a bunch of humans called Julia.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Yea, Julia is the name of the squirrel that routinely exploits my bird feeder.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_(programming_language)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

https://www.ponylang.io/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_3D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(syntax)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Programming_Language

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

PHP is also named after an animal.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty huge penguin

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Penis

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Penis Huge Penguin?

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

...fish ???

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pascal, too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Haskell

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

That reminds me... Oh, Caml.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm surprised there aren't more languages labelled after highly addictive stimulants

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I heard Ritchie called it C after creating it during one of Bell Labs' famous coke parties.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

OCaml ??

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yes, indeed, I see javascripts in the wild every day.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

What about a GOpher?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

i think there's something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.

also cowball for the artistic license.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Javalina 🐗

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Ook!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

What about Lolcat?

kthxbye

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

Chicken?

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