From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-08-27T17:11:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Pocket Reference

On Aug 27, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Thomas Worm wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:39:53 +0900, John Joyce wrote:
>
>>   Just can't understand why they put a giraffe on this one? Perl's
>> camel has become a big part of it's image, but there just hasn't yet
>> been an animal on a Ruby book that made sense.
>
> Because they put animals on almost every book. The "camel book" comes
> from that as beeing a short reference to "Programming Perl" and not
> because programming or perl has something got to do with camels. If  
> they
> would have put an eagle on it, "Programming Perl" would be known  
> today as
> the "eagle book". But they just put a camel on it like they put a  
> giraffe
> on the ruby book you mentioned. Just like that.

Indeed, the "eagle book" is the one about mod_perl, and the "llama  
book" is "Learning Perl". Incidentally Ruby has the "Pickaxe" due to  
the same reason, a pickaxe in the cover, though in this case you  
usually don't append "book" when you refer to it.

-- fxn