From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2008-08-23T12:56:06+09:00
Subject: Re: A Mascot...


From: "Phlip" <phlip2005@gmail.com>
>
> Emmanuel Rubio wrote:
> 
>> The ruby girl could be as a Special character for ruby (like a tutorial 
>> guide or inviting ruby things) and a mascot (for general porpuse, like 
>> identiti, simbol, mark, etc...)
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, I think someone googled for "ruby manga", and then 
> pretended an artist had ever heard of our little programming language...

"Ruby -- now with mammalian protruberances!"

;)


Strange; I'm pretty sure I was on ruby-talk before and during the initial
mascot proposals, but I'm not able to locate the initial "ruby-chan"
proposal message in my archives.

Here's an early post that mentions the ruby manga character as 
having been illustrated by a Japanese rubyist (which jibes with
memory)... but goes on to propose a Ruby Crowned Kinglet 
instead:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/14121


Anyway, I remember all this from 2001... If we *had* to have a mascot,
I thought the ruby crowned kinglet was pretty cool...

But I'm perfectly happy with:

>> defined? Mascot
=> nil


:)


Regards,

Bill