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

… javascript ???

  • @[email protected]
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    3519 days 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

    • @[email protected]
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      18 days 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?

        • @SexyVetra
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          1619 days ago

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

          /s

        • @[email protected]
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          1019 days ago

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