From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2004-12-01T10:37:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Optional static typing (or, What can Ruby 2.0 borrow from Boo?)

Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.elitemail.org> writes:
> * Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> [Dec 01, 2004 01:10]:
>> [Often red gemstones are used to represent Ruby, but perhaps we should
>> consider a duck of some sort.  Maybe even an ascii-art one we can drag
>> out for these occasions.]
>
> (This was actually proposed a while ago, but we have been unable to find
> a good picture without a copyright.)

There are tons of them on <URL:http://www.morguefile.com/>.  I
particularly like
<URL:http://www.morguefile.com/archive/?display=1093204174425>, but
there are 144 results when searching for the word 'duck', so there are
likely to be more suitable ones.

-=Eric
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