Thursday 12 February 2015

Adjectives for programming languages


Unlike other programming languages, Python has an adjective.
Actually, several are used.
Pythonic is deemed to be the correct one, while pythonian means pertaining to Monty Python and pythonine means pertaining to python snakes. Curiously, there could be a further non-standard adjective, which is pythian, which means pertaining to the Oracle of Delphi, which is known as Pythia (Πυθία, multiple profetesses with same name), while Python (Πύθων) was a diving spirit used and the old name for the site —the Oracle's snake handling gave the name python to pythons, not viceversa and oddly, Delphi is a Windows Pascal compiler.

Ideomatic perl is occasionally called perly, while no other programming language has a name. What could they be if one were to make them up?
Fortran > Fortranic? (Sounds awesome)
Java > Javanese or Javian?
JavaScript > JavaScriptorial or JavaScribal?
C++ > bisplusCian?
Julia > Julian?
Ruby > Rubeous?
MATLAB > Matlaboratorial?