From: JamesBritt <james@...>
Date: 2001-09-03T12:14:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20729] Re: OReilly Ruby book has snail on cover

Well, escargot is a delicacy, is it not?


James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yukihiro Matsumoto [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 4:24 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:20723] Re: OReilly Ruby book has snail on cover
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:20717] Re: OReilly Ruby book has snail on cover"
>     on 01/09/03, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:
> 
> |Now, here's the rub with this book: The cover of Oreilly's Ruby book will 
> |hava  snail on it!  Can we lobby them to give us a different animal (or 
> |mineral in this case).  It probably wouldn't be good for Ruby to be known 
> |as 'that snail language' with 'the snail book'.  
> 
> Oh, no.  Last time I asked them sheep, they gave me goat.  This time
> they haven't even asked me.
> 
> 							matz.
> 
>