From: Markus Jais <mjais@...>
Date: 2001-09-03T17:12:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20750] Re: OReilly Ruby book has snail on cover

In article <999473015.700022.6743.nullmailer@ev.netlab.jp>, "Yukihiro
Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> 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.

I do not like snails too, at least not for the book cover
maybe something more powerful would be good
because Ruby is such a powerful language

like a tiger (but tigers maybe a bad choice because they are
unfortunately!!!!! close to
extinction and Ruby is definitely not!)

maybe a (golden) eagle, a crocodile or a cugar!

markus