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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
… javascript ???
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.
Until recently, thought it was also named after Pythagoras, with the snake being a double meaning.
fun fact: Pythagoras was named after the snake god Glycon.
(this is not true)
There’s also OCamel and Julia.
And Ada
Julia is an animal?
Yeah, there’s a bunch of humans called Julia.
Yes, under the right circumstances she can be.
Yea, Julia is the name of the squirrel that routinely exploits my bird feeder.
Ocaml stands for “Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language”, so it’s pronounced like “Camel” but not named after it, unfortunately
Ook!
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.
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.
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…
Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺
That reminds me… Oh, Caml.
What about a GOpher?
Chicken?
Armed Bear in the same vein
Chicken.
i think there’s something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.
also cowball for the artistic license.
llama?
…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.
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OCaml ??
Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.
Pascal, too.
Haskell
