From: Marko Schulz <in6x059@...>
Date: 2001-04-27T16:16:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14302] Re: Ruby mascot proposal

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:27:29AM +0900, John Tobler wrote:
> 
> I suspect that the O'Reilly animal books derive their inheritance from the
> infamous "Dragon Book" 

No, it was because Edie Freedman thought that all those UNIX-commands
sounded so strange (sed, awk, lex, yacc), there should be strange
animals on the front too.

See http://www.oreilly.com/news/ediemals_0400.html
and http://www.oreilly.com/news/lejeune_0400.html

-- 
marko schulz

                          Dieser Satz beinhalten drei Fehller.