"states: y @TheStrangeRoots  How programming languages got their names  Bash  Clojure  The creator wanted to include the letter 'c' (C#), 'I  (Lisp) and 'j' (Java) and liked that it was a pun on  'closure! The word 'closure, the act of closing, comes  from the Latin 'clausūra' stemming from' clauděre'  which means 'to shut or close!  Bash is an acronym for Bourne-again Shell, a pun  on the Bourne Shell - named after creator Stephen  Bourne - being ""born again"". 'Bash' is also a verb  meaning 'to strike with a heavy blow', possibly from  the Danish 'baske' meaning 'to beat, strike!  Quite simply C got its name because it was  preceded by a programming language called B.C  spawned its own children including C++ and C#.It  is the third letter in the English alphabet and was  originally identical to the Greek letter 'Gamma',  Java  Go  Elixir  The name Java was the result of a highly-  caffeinated brainstorming session. Java, or 'Jawa'  in Indonesian, is the name of a large island in  Indonesia that produces strong, dark and sweet  coffee. It has been a slang term for coffee in the  United States since the 1800s.  One of the Google developers said the name Go,  sometime referred to as Golang, was chosen  because it was 'short and easy to type'  The word 'go, meaning 'to travel or go somewhere'  stems from the Old High German 'gan' (to go).  The word 'elixir', meaning a potion or essence that  prolongs life or preserves something, stems from  the Arabic 'al-ikst' via the late Greek 'xerion', a  powder for drying wounds. Appeared in Middle  English from the 14th century.  Java  JavaScript  Kotlin  Perl  Originally named Mocha, a type of fine quality  coffee, it was later renamed JavaScript, combining  Java, US slang for coffee, + 'Script, 'something that  is written' from the Latin 'scriptum, 'a set of  written words or writing.  Inspired by Java, it was named after Kotlin Island  in Russia. Originally called Kettusaari by the Finns  ('fox island') and Ketlingen by the Swedes, (maybe  stemming from 'kettel' meaning 'cauldron'). After  Russia won control of the island in 1703 it was  Initially named Pearl, the alternative spelling was  adopted as the name was already taken. It comes  from the Middle French 'perle 'meaning 'bead' or  'something valuable' and the Latin 'perna' meaning  'leg, also a mollusc shaped like a leg of mutton.  JS  renamed 'Kotling' then 'Kotlin.  PHP  Python  Ris named partly after the first names of the first  two R authors (Ross Ihaka and Robert Gentleman)  and partly as a play on the name of S, itss parent  langauge. It is the 18th letter in the alphabet and  derives from the Greek letter 'Rho'  php  Originally known as Personal Home Page  Construction Kit, this was later shortened to just  PHP (an acronym for Personal Home Page). It is  now accepted as the initials for PHP: Hypertext  Preprocessor.  Creator Guido van Rossum named Python after TV  comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus. The word  'python' comes from the ancient Greek 'Puthón,  the name of a huge serpent killed by the god  Apollo. Later adopted as a generic term for non-  poisonous snakes that constrict their prey.  Ruby  Scala  Rust  Influenced by Perl, the developer chose a  colleague's birthstone which followed it in the  monthly sequence (June is Pearl, Ruby is July).  Ruby comes from the Old French 'rubi', a 'reddish  precious stone', and the Latin 'rubeus, 'red'.  Rust's name comes from a fungus that is robust,  distributed, and parallel. It is also a substring of  robust. Rust, also the reddish coating formed on  oxidized metal, stems from the German 'rost' and  possibly the Indo-European base of 'red.  Scala is a combination of the first letters of  'scalable' and 'language! It is also the Italian word  for 'stairway', as it helps users to ascend to a  better language. The logo is also an abstraction of  a staircase or steps.  SQL  Swift  TypeScript  SQL  Originating from the shortcomings of JavaScript,  hence the similarility of the name. Its name  combines 'Type', meaning a kind or class (from the  Greek 'tuptein' 'to strike'), with 'Script, 'something  that is written' from the Latin 'scriptum'.  First called ""Structured English Query Language""  (SEQUEL), pronounced ""sequel"", it was a pun that it  was the sequel to QUEL. It was later shortened to  SQL. The word 'sequel' stems from the Latin  'sequela' from 'sequr' meaning 'to follow.  The word 'swift' means 'moving with great speed or  velocity' and can be traced back to the prehistoric  'swipt' meaning to 'move in a sweeping manner'. The  swallow-like bird became known as a swift from the  17th century and is used as the language's logo.  TS how programming languages got their names"
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