From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-08-20T22:51:19+09:00
Subject: Re: A Mascot...

Hi --

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:

> The likeliness to the BSD Devil is intentional, Darwin uses a lot of BSD code.
> The Darwin kernel (Mach) is mostly pure, but the tools and utils layer
> is all BSD.
> Similarly, Hexley is basically the Platypus, but one *wearing* and
> *bearing* the horned hat and trident.
>
> Perl has the camel.
> C and Smalltalk were created in those days when people weren't so much
> interested in mascots :-)
>
> Should I talk with Jon Hooper, the creator of Hexley?
> Or should I wait till we have enough momentum from the list members?

You should talk to Matz. There's no official Ruby mascot unless Matz
chooses one or delegates someone to do so. And, mercifully, he has so
far done neither :-)


David

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