c/programmerhumor · by comma_egomaniac@midwest.social · 1yspreading misinformation online (javascript??) alt text: Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal! .. javascript ??? 467 points · 72 comments · view on lemmy.world
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AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 149 pts · 1y
Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It's named after the comedy group Monty Python's Flying Circus.
HStone32@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 1y
oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.
Adda@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 1y
While I disagree with you, this made me chuckle. A great joke. Wish you all the best.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 1y
mintdaniel42@futurology.today · 1 pts · 1y
Bro woke up and chose violence
lseif@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y
*indirectly named after an animal...
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml · 142 pts · 1y
If I'm not wrong python is named after Monty python TV show and not after a animal
Hope@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 1y
Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)
h3mlocke@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 1y
...Similar to pythons, which happen to be animals as well.
Faresh@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y
I'm not sure, but I think that might have been part of the joke, seeing all the comments here.
pooberbee@lemmy.ml · 103 pts · 1y
C shell
Pete_topkevinbottom@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 1y
By the C shore
TheSalarian@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
If someone hasn't made a garbage collector for C and called it C Shore, they need to get on it asap
muzzle@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
There actually is a fish Shell
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 81 pts · 1y
Don't forget about
.batcaptainlezbian@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 1y
Python isn’t named after an animal it’s named after a comedy troupe, which is a group of animals
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
Python, Spam, IDLE.
Monte Python have a lot to answer for.
General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Until recently, thought it was also named after Pythagoras, with the snake being a double meaning.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y
fun fact: Pythagoras was named after the snake god Glycon.
(this is not true)
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 59 pts · 1y
There's also OCamel and Julia.
choss@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 1y
And Ada
morrowind@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 1y
Julia is an animal?
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 29 pts · 1y
Yeah, there's a bunch of humans called Julia.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 1y
Yea, Julia is the name of the squirrel that routinely exploits my bird feeder.
FreshLight@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Yes, under the right circumstances she can be.
sunshine@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Ocaml stands for "Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language", so it's pronounced like "Camel" but not named after it, unfortunately
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 51 pts · 1y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_(programming_language)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_(programming_language)
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 1y
https://www.ponylang.io/
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1y
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
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 1y
PHP is also named after an animal.
konalt@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 1y
Pretty huge penguin
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 1y
Penis
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1y
Penis Huge Penguin?
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 1y
That's the one. Tux fux
missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 39 pts · 1y
Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Pascal, too.
take6056@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 1y
Haskell
bricked@discuss.tchncs.de · 39 pts · 1y
...fish ???
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
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black0ut@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1y
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)
Magister@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y
Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺
xmunk@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1y
That reminds me... Oh, Caml.
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 1y
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 · 16 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
I'm surprised there aren't more languages labelled after highly addictive stimulants
SexyVetra@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1y
I heard Ritchie called it C after creating it during one of Bell Labs' famous coke parties.
/s
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
and Julia? Well we all know what Julia is slang for
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
They tried making SpeedScript but big programming decided it was too fast for its time and shut it down
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y
Java was named after the Javanese, and not the other way around?
FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 32 pts · 1y
OCaml ??
fox2263@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
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.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 1y
Am I being dense? I don't get it.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 1y
JavaScript is not named after an animal
badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
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@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
I'm fairly certain this is a reference to a joke tweet interaction that went something like
But nobody finished the end of the interaction or it wasn't in the screenshot.
kamen@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
Yes, indeed, I see javascripts in the wild every day.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1y
Nah, it's not a programming language.
It's a tool for degenerates (said the kid who grew up rotting his brain with vbscript)
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Am professional js dev, can confirm. Have maximum brain rot.
skibidi
kamen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Eh, whatever. It puts food on the table...
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
I'm not judging, I know the pain
kamen@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Sorry, I was must continuing the joke.
abcd@feddit.org · 17 pts · 1y
What about a GOpher?
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl · 15 pts · 1y
i think there's something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.
also cowball for the artistic license.
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Javalina 🐗
Fades@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
☕️🐗
halvar@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 1y
Chicken?
EntirelyUnlovable@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Chicken.
pooberbee@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Armed Bear in the same vein
metaStatic@kbin.earth · 13 pts · 1y
Ook!
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
What about Lolcat?
kthxbye
noobface@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
llama?
boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1y
What about
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