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

… javascript ???

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    11 months 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

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      11 months 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?