From: Karl von Laudermann <doodpants@...>
Date: 2007-08-28T02:00:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Pocket Reference

On Aug 27, 3:58 am, Thomas Worm <use...@s4r.de> 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.

Since the item most associated with Ruby is a pickaxe (due to the book
Programming Ruby), the appropriate O'Reilly animal should be whatever
animal is known as "nature's pickaxe". I guess that's the giraffe. ;-)