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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 22 points 21 hours 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 8 points 14 hours 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 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours 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 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Jigsaw is for Java

King is for Kotlin

Lion is for LUA

Monkey is for ...