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

.. javascript ???

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Am I being dense? I don't get it.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

JavaScript is not named after an animal

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.