From: Sanat Gersappa <sanatg@...>
Date: 2001-09-03T18:00:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20756] Re: OReilly Ruby book has snail on cover

Maybe they can put Homo Sapiens for a change :-)

Sanat.

--- Henning von Rosen <henning@ikso.net> wrote:
> > |> Oh, no.  Last time I asked them sheep, they
> gave me goat.  This time
> > |> they haven't even asked me.
> >
> > |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!
> >
> > I think, unfortunately, it's too late.  It always
> be.
> > But I can't help expressing my feeling of
> disappointment.  sigh.
> >
> > matz.
> 
> I understand, but let's look at it the other way:
> 
> look, camels walk strangley, and probably do not
> smell good; python snakes
> are very unfriendly and dangerous. Animal is animal,
> and every animal has
> it's own beauty, it's own advantage, that made it
> survive and thrive.
> 
> Any interpreted language is slow, a snail is one of
> the few animals that can
> really make the best out of being slow. Besides,
> snails are really beautiful
> animals. So, why not think of the snail as a
> profound object-oriented
> zen-kind-of snail. In order to think deep, you need
> to relax. For me Ruby is
> a good tool, because it is deep, so a snail on the
> cover could be really
> inspirational.
> 
> :-)!
> amike via Henning
> 


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