From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2008-08-22T12:58:03+09:00
Subject: Re: A Mascot...

On Thursday 21 August 2008 15:56:14 Matt Harrison wrote:

> A mascot for a grown-up programming language has a version which is nude???

*gasp* Nudity! That could never be art...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_milo

Or a logo...

http://www.deadprogrammer.com/starbucks-logo-mermaid

> I'm glad this mascot isn't widely acknowledged as it 
> is not only irrelevant to ruby, it's also quite childish.

Well, hey, one more:

http://python.org/

And, of course, some variations:

http://www.cafepress.com/wxpython

Quite childish, and somewhat less to do with the origin of the name (which is 
Monty Python, not actual pythons).

> I would hope that if Ruby did officially adopt a mascot it would be much 
> more suited to it's task.

Well, again -- see Starbucks.

I'm not really sure how you would make a logo relevant, here.

At the end of the day, Ruby is about making programming easier, and about 
making the computer work for you. I honestly have trouble figuring out how to 
put that into a logo -- a robot in a maid uniform? A happy person sitting at 
a computer?

Some of the better-known logos in software

http://kernel.org/

have NOTHING to do with their projects, either in name or in content.

At least ruby-chan has red hair! And she looks pretty -- Ruby is also about 
beautiful code. Could be argued that it's about sexy code, but I'll say no 
more about that.



I'm just playing Devil's Advocate. I like Ruby-chan, but I also see value in 
not having a mascot.

I have no opinion either way, other than "Kawaii!"