From: "Benjamin J. Tilly" <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-04-28T14:26:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14369] Re: Ruby mascot proposal

>===== Original Message From John Tobler <jtobler@WirelessKnowledge.com> =====
>Phil (ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com) wrote:
>> It's all because O'Reilly chose to put a camel
>> on the cover of the Programming Perl book -
>> there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason
>> to their choice, but as the years  went by the
>> Camel became the symbol of Perl.
>
>I suspect that the O'Reilly animal books derive their inheritance from the
>infamous "Dragon Book" (see
>http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/d/DragonBook.html), an absolute classic
>that was used to torture a couple generations of wannabe computer
>scientists.
[...]

Actually not.  There was rather less rhyme and reason to it...

http://www.oreilly.com/news/ediemals_0400.html

Cheers,
Ben