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Fun fact: Python is the only programming language named after an animal!
… javascript ???
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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
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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?
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I’m surprised there aren’t more languages labelled after highly addictive stimulants
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I heard Ritchie called it C after creating it during one of Bell Labs’ famous coke parties.
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