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> thought it would help to make the books stand out from other publishers’ offerings But they don't stand out from each other. It's just a sea of wood cuttings
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> thought it would help to make the books stand out from other publishers’ offerings
But they don't stand out from each other. It's just a sea of wood cuttings of random animals, utterly unrelated to the content.
It also doesn't stand out from other publishers - other publishers use generic illustrations of national dress or something else instead. In all cases it's just some random image.
- andylynch 5y agoMaybe less so now, but the early ones were most certainly distinctive. Especially the Camel book! (Programming Perl)
- DocTomoe 5y agoThe Camel became a Perl symbol, much like Peter Norton's pink shirt became the symbol of DOS machine language calls. Also, Larry Wall chanelling a wizardy school headmaster in his introduction in the Camel book ages before a certain British Author ever thought about writing... Good times.
- ReleaseCandidat 5y agoTalking about camels, I haven't found 'Real World OCaml' on their website. https://dev.realworldocaml.org/index.html https://dev.realworldocaml.org/index.html
- bch 5y ago> But they don't stand out from each other. They were (still?) also colour-coded[0]. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/ACM_OReilly-Rainbow-large-flash.jpg/1012px-ACM_OReilly-Rainbow-large-flash.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/AC...