From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2007-10-31T12:40:36+09:00 Subject: Re: the result of Ruby official logo contest Gerardo Santana G�mez Garrido wrote: > 2007/10/30, Marc Heiler : >> I just looked at the Python logo >> http://www.python.org/images/python-logo.gif too, to compare. >> >> It looks somewhat okay, but also a bit like a company's site logo ... >> And didnt Python have a logo-snake in the past? It looked not good, but >> python did put a lot of emphasis on "FUN" ... the new webpage looks more >> professional, but less "fun"... Anyway that is just my opinion. >> >> (Btw that Python logo has a TM notice while the ruby logo has not, maybe >> thats also a different philosophy behind a language? *grin*) >> >> PS: I actually like the proposed logo. If there is only one aspect I >> could change, maybe I would try to make it more crisp/sharper, but I >> side on the people that like the logo anyway so it aint important for >> me. ;) >> >> PSS: I will put the "official" one on my webpage as link to the ruby >> site too :D > > Here are better ones: > http://www.goodbyehelicopter.com/2007/10/30/fwiw-my-ruby-logo-submissions/ > > It's funny that you didn't mention Perl, or PHP. > > Perl's is not precisely a great logo either. But everybody associates > the camel (and not a pearl) with Perl (after "the Camel" book), so it > works great for Perl, and therefore it's a great logo (oops, reductio > ad absurdum? :) > > PHP's, well, it's simple and does the job. I wonder how it got chosen. > It reminds me the first logo in the URL above. Well ... there's the PostgreSQL elephant and the MySQL dolphin. As far as a logo for Ruby is concerned, I don't have any strong opinions one way or another about the new one, except that at first glance, it looked to me a lot like the Rails logo.