From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-07-04T09:44:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Retired Ruby Mascott?

Hi --

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Pawel Szymczykowski wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My memory could be fuzzy - but didn't the Ruby language used to have a
> sort of anime-girl type mascott several years ago?

There was no such "mascot."  The ruby-chan image came up at a time
when the notion of having a Ruby mascot was being bandied about.
Mercifully, and correctly, the idea of having a kind of "pet"
woman/girl as a mascot was not taken particularly seriously by very
many people (except, perhaps, by those of us who felt somewhat
affronted by it).

You can search the ruby-talk archives for more.


David

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