From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2001-09-04T19:36:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20852] Re: OReilly Ruby book has snail on cover

"Markus Jais" <mjais@gmx-ag.de> writes:

> 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!)

Plus, a tiger already got used for a Java book.

-- 
Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com