spreading misinformation online (javascript??)
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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
.. javascript ???
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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
.. javascript ???
Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It's named after the comedy group Monty Python's Flying Circus.
If someone hasn't made a garbage collector for C and called it C Shore, they need to get on it asap
Python isn’t named after an animal it’s named after a comedy troupe, which is a group of animals
Until recently, thought it was also named after Pythagoras, with the snake being a double meaning.
Ocaml stands for "Objective Categorical Abstract Machine Language", so it's pronounced like "Camel" but not named after it, unfortunately
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 heard Ritchie called it C after creating it during one of Bell Labs' famous coke parties.
/s
They tried making SpeedScript but big programming decided it was too fast for its time and shut it down
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.
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
But nobody finished the end of the interaction or it wasn't in the screenshot.
Nah, it's not a programming language.
It's a tool for degenerates (said the kid who grew up rotting his brain with vbscript)
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.
i think there's something called aspnet, dolphin and badger.
also cowball for the artistic license.