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

.. javascript ???

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[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] SexyVetra@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

and Julia? Well we all know what Julia is slang for

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