[ruby-talk:00823] Re: My favorite language's icon turned into a sheep!

Francois Le Coguiec writes:
> eIn message "[ruby-talk:00818] Re: My favorite language's icon turned into a 
> sheep!"
> on Mon, 27 Sep 1999 08:33:49 +0900
> [e-mail] (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
> 
> >Sheep, indeed.  You like it, don't you? :-)
> 
> Actually... yes, I like it, it is cute.
> It is just that... I don't know for sure about other countries,
> but for French people the sheep is not a very intelligent animal.
> It has a reputation of not being very creative or assertive, of
> always blindly following in a herd, sometimes even to his death.

I have to agree with all what you've said for Germans too! :-(
But as an animal, I also like sheeps :-)))

[...]

If you would ask me, what animal I would prefer among these three, I
would certainly choose the Hummingbird. :-)

It looks pretty, and flies stright up to the air! It seems to resemble
the elegance, speed and flexibility of Ruby, IMHO! But OTOH, you have
never asked me ;-)))

\cle