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

… javascript ???

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

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?

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

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…C ???

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

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

/s

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

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

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