2009/10/24 <[email protected]>: > I'm always wanting to know this. Thanks. >
O'Reilly media, publishers of Programming Perl (as well as Learning, Advance, Mastering, Best Practices, Cookbook and many other Perl books), have a practice of placing animal drawings on the cover of the books and the Programming Perl book have a drawing of a Camel on its cover. Being one of the dominant publication of tech books, if the book becomes canonical, or just famous, the animal on the cover tends to be associated with the technology the book is about. For instance, the Java implementation of JavaScript is called Rhino after the Rhino painted on the O'Reilly JavaScript book. The Camel is actually a trademark of O'Reilly, and the Perl Foundation is using an onion logo, rather than a camel. There's also a saying among Perl programmers that "Perl is like a camel, ugly but efficient". The merits of this saying is debatable. Some more information here: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/usage/ -- Erez "The government forgets that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, and not a blueprint" http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/ -- http://www.whyweprotest.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
