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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 32 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

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 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?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] SexyVetra@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

/s

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

They tried making SpeedScript but big programming decided it was too fast for its time and shut it down

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago

...C ???

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

Java was named after the Javanese, and not the other way around?