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

.. javascript ???

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Python isn’t named after an animal it’s named after a comedy troupe, which is a group of animals
- Python, Spam, IDLE.
  
  Monte Python have a lot to answer for.
- Until recently, thought it was also named after Pythagoras, with the snake being a double meaning.
  
  fun fact: Pythagoras was named after the snake god Glycon.
  
  (this is not true)
Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It's named after the comedy group Monty Python's Flying Circus.
- oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.
  
  While I disagree with you, this made me chuckle. A great joke. Wish you all the best.
  
  More of a tragicomedy, really
- *indirectly named after an animal...
What about

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If I'm not wrong python is named after Monty python TV show and not after a animal
- Monty Python, being a comedy troupe, consists of humans, which are a type of animal ;)
  
  ...Similar to pythons, which happen to be animals as well.
- I'm not sure, but I think that might have been part of the joke, seeing all the comments here.
C shell
- By the C shore
  
  If someone hasn't made a garbage collector for C and called it C Shore, they need to get on it asap
- There actually is a fish Shell
Don't forget about .bat
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
- Java was named after the Javanese, and not the other way around?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel_(programming_language)
- https://www.ponylang.io/
- 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
...fish ???
- 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)
- ><>
There's also OCamel and Julia.
- And Ada
- Julia is an animal?
  
  Yeah, there's a bunch of humans called Julia.
  
  Yea, Julia is the name of the squirrel that routinely exploits my bird feeder.
  
  Yes, under the right circumstances she can be.
- Ocaml stands for "Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language", so it's pronounced like "Camel" but not named after it, unfortunately
Ada is named after a human and humans are animals.
- Pascal, too.
  
  Haskell
OCaml ??
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.
Fucking Caml, hate this language 👺
- That reminds me... Oh, Caml.
Yes, indeed, I see javascripts in the wild every day.
- Nah, it's not a programming language.
  
  It's a tool for degenerates (said the kid who grew up rotting his brain with vbscript)
  
  Am professional js dev, can confirm. Have maximum brain rot.
  
  skibidi
  
  Eh, whatever. It puts food on the table...
PHP is also named after an animal.
- Pretty huge penguin
  
  Penis
- Elephpant
Javalina 🐗
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Am I being dense? I don't get it.
- JavaScript is not named after an animal
  
  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.
- I'm fairly certain this is a reference to a joke tweet interaction that went something like
  
  Fun fact: Oranges are the only fruit named after a color
  
  Star fruit?
  
  Close! That is a shape, not a color!
  
  But nobody finished the end of the interaction or it wasn't in the screenshot.
What about a GOpher?
What about Lolcat?

kthxbye
Chicken?
- Armed Bear in the same vein
- Chicken.
i think there's something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.

also cowball for the artistic license.
Ook!
llama?

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