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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As at least one nautically themed childrens' book surely has it: C is for crab.

Coming at programming sideways feels more like a Haskell or Prolog thing, though.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Apple is for ADA

Ball is for BASH

Crab is for C

Dog is for D

Elephant is for Ecsmascript

Fox is for F#

Goat is for Go

House is for Haskell

Igloo is for

...okay I got stuck there.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Java has Duke

Duke, Java's mascot. A triangular shaped character with a red nose.

Ugh, I accidentally got a fake transparent background. Oh well.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Branding fail so bad that everyone forgets that Java even has a mascot.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought it was a cup of coffee? A hipster barista in 90’s Memphis style illustration would be most accurate I think.

Damn, I went searching online for some examples and got nothing that was really from back then. Just shitloads of AI vaporware slop. Time to dig out my old design mags I guess.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 1 day ago

That would be the natural assumption, but Sun didn't do it. I think there is a logo for books, but not one by Sun/Oracle.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

There are dozens of us! Millions of devices and dozens of us know about Duke!

Fun fact, Duke is released to the public. I forget in what way exactly, but Oracle freed them (him? it?).

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Igloo is for Idris

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jigsaw is for Java

King is for Kotlin

Lion is for LUA

Monkey is for ...

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Monkey is for MoonScript

N is for Node.js

O is for Objective-C

P is for Pascal

Q is for QBasic

R is for R

S is for Swift

T is for TypeScript

U is for ...

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Umbrella is for UnrealScript

Van is for VimScript

Water is for Webassembly

Xylophone is for Xod

Yacht is for YASS

Zulu is for Zig

Okay, I had to consult Wikipedia's list of programming languages for some of those.