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Who the hell at o'rielly is responsible for choosing the animals?
by Avshalom 9y ago
Who the hell at o'rielly is responsible for choosing the animals?
- reificator 9y agoAt least the one for Rust makes sense, given that the community calls themselves Rustaceans.
- pdpi 9y agoAnd has Ferris the crab as a mascot.
- reificator 9y agoFerris eh? Apt name. Thanks for the info, I actually didn't know that despite playing with Rust on and off for a year or two.
- steveklabnik 9y agoFor more: http://rustacean.net/ http://rustacean.net/
- Avshalom 9y agoThat's adorbs but doesn't explain who was editing an elixir book and thought "yeah, musk deer that's what this reminds me of"
- steveklabnik 9y agoSure. Was just trying to provide some context for the Rust book.
- qbrass 9y agoWhoever's in charge of designing the book cover. http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/lejeune_0400.html http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/lejeune_0400.h...
- skue 9y agoEdie Freedman came up with the concept and chose the early animal prints. See: http://animals.oreilly.com/origin-of-species/ http://animals.oreilly.com/origin-of-species/
- pdpi 9y agoA lot of those are some sort of pun or reference on the topic at hand: The crab as as a reference to Ferris/Rustaceans on the Rust book, spiders on books for "webmasters", the snake on Python Programming, etc. Others were just assigned at random (and proceeded to become indelibly associated with the language, like the perl camel). A list of the animals, and some history: http://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp http://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/a-short-history-of-the-oreilly-animals https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/a-short-history-of-the-oreilly...