On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:51 AM, David A. Black [email protected]
wrote:
Perl has the camel.
C and Smalltalk were created in those days when people weren’t so much
interested in mascots 
Should I talk with Jon Hooper, the creator of Hexley?
Or should I wait till we have enough momentum from the list members?
You should talk to Matz. There’s no official Ruby mascot unless Matz
chooses one or delegates someone to do so. And, mercifully, he has so
far done neither
I vaguely recall some creepy post on RubyTalk with someone asking for
a high resolution photo of Matz suitable for hanging on a wall.
If we have a mascot, I vote for a Matzcot*.
-greg
(*) Which of course, is completely a joke. I am very thankful we
don’t have a mascot, Ruby isn’t a high school football team.
On 20/08/2008, Gregory B. [email protected] wrote:
bearing the horned hat and trident.
far done neither
I vaguely recall some creepy post on RubyTalk with someone asking for
a high resolution photo of Matz suitable for hanging on a wall.
If we have a mascot, I vote for a Matzcot*.
-greg
(*) Which of course, is completely a joke. I am very thankful we
don’t have a mascot, Ruby isn’t a high school football team.
It looks like mascots are in general out of fashion these says. Even
NetBSD which had a fine demon for a long time went to a bland flag :-S
Michal
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Michal S. [email protected]
wrote:
On 20/08/2008, Gregory B. [email protected] wrote:
NetBSD which had a fine demon for a long time went to a bland flag :-S
On the contrary, Prawn has a mighty-fine smiling … Prawn … as its
logo:
http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/
But I think individual projects can get away with more than a
programming language should be able to, especially once it becomes
more popular.
I can’t imagine hanging on to our cuddly little crustacean if/when
Prawn is merged with the Ruby PDF project.
-greg
Pablo Q. wrote:
I think that we must use a kind of artificial animal, like dogs. I mean,
an
animal made by human beings because Ruby is for me like the first
programming language that actually speaks like human and has an human
behavior (able to says stuff in different ways).
http://studio.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/ex/images/duck.gif
Le 20 août 2008 à 21:32, Robert D. a écrit :
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Clinton D. Judy [email protected] wrote:
Definitely get more momentum. Looks like 2 for mascot, 5+ against so
far.
Can I hear some defined reasons why people don’t like a mascot? Don’t
know why a lack of a mascot makes Ruby much better…
Maybe I am just too conservative about it. I believe Ruby does not
need a mascot. A mascot is something people associate with a product
etc.
C’mon, it has some good points :
http://freebsd-image-gallery.netcode.pl/?gallery=Daemonette
(But we need to choose an adequate beast…)
Fred
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Clinton D. Judy [email protected]
wrote:
Definitely get more momentum. Looks like 2 for mascot, 5+ against so
far.
Can I hear some defined reasons why people don’t like a mascot? Don’t
know why a lack of a mascot makes Ruby much better…
Maybe I am just too conservative about it. I believe Ruby does not
need a mascot. A mascot is something people associate with a product
etc. I would hate if a mascot would imply something about Ruby. I
prefer people see Ruby for what it is.
That said I am not strongly opposed, just slightly, and I do not think
that it will matter a lot.
Cheers
Robert
–
http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/
There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 05:13:49PM +0900, Mayuresh K. wrote:
Take for example the BSD Demon (Chuck)
Last I checked, that was spelled Daemon, and his name was Beastie.
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:49:14PM +0900, Mayuresh K. wrote:
The likeliness to the BSD Devil is intentional,
That’s a daemon, not a devil.
On 20/08/2008, Tim H. [email protected] wrote:
Shouldn’t the duck be red?
It’s a ruby duck after all…
Thanks
Michal
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 00:29 +0900, Clinton D. Judy wrote:
Could you make a cute lobster? Or you could go the opposite direction, with an extreme lobster! With razor-sharp claws and all.
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Subject: Re: A Mascot…
I suggest a lobster as mascot.
So this guy gets on the plane with a lobster in a box. I ask the guy,
“where’d you get the lobster” and he says, “I bought it in the airport
– I’m taking it home for dinner”
And the lobster says, “I’ve already had dinner – take me to a movie”
–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com
“A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.” –
Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős
Mayuresh K. wrote:
while Ruby probably has a logo (the ruby gem itself) it doesn’t have a mascot.
False. Ruby has had a mascot since 2004: the cute anime character
“Ruby-chan” (“chan” is a suffix of endearment in Japanese; something
like “lil’ Ruby”) designed by Yoshida Masato:
http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby-chan/
WFT!
2008/8/21 Suraj K. [email protected]
Suraj K. wrote:
Mayuresh K. wrote:
while Ruby probably has a logo (the ruby gem itself) it doesn’t have a mascot.
False. Ruby has had a mascot since 2004: the cute anime character
“Ruby-chan” (“chan” is a suffix of endearment in Japanese; something
like “lil’ Ruby”) designed by Yoshida Masato:
http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby-chan/
A mascot for a grown-up programming language has a version which is
nude???
How inappropriate. I’m glad this mascot isn’t widely acknowledged as it
is not only irrelevant to ruby, it’s also quite childish.
I would hope that if Ruby did officially adopt a mascot it would be much
more suited to it’s task.
Matt
Matt H. wrote:
False. Ruby has had a mascot since 2004 (…)
Ruby-tan. I knew that there had to be one… (And there is even the
meido version! 
A mascot for a grown-up programming language has a version which is
nude???
I understand you don’t like manga
How inappropriate. I’m glad this mascot isn’t widely acknowledged as it
is not only irrelevant to ruby, it’s also quite childish.
But very Japanese… did you know that the hometown of mangaka Gosho
Aoyama used images from his “Meitantei Conan” (called “Case Closed” in
America) as anti-counterfeiting features in official documents? Or that
even the Japanese Self-Defence Forces have been seen using cutesy
anime-styled super-deformed mascots in official publicity materials?
(Those are not exactly anime-gals, yeah, but I think they’re even
“worse”. After all pinups have always had a strong association with the
military )
Hi –
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Suraj K. wrote:
Mayuresh K. wrote:
while Ruby probably has a logo (the ruby gem itself) it doesn’t have a mascot.
False. Ruby has had a mascot since 2004: the cute anime character
“Ruby-chan” (“chan” is a suffix of endearment in Japanese; something
like “lil’ Ruby”) designed by Yoshida Masato:
Ruby has no mascot, and I hope it stays that way.
David
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 6:14 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
[email protected] wrote:
So this guy gets on the plane with a lobster in a box. I ask the guy,
“where’d you get the lobster” and he says, “I bought it in the airport
– I’m taking it home for dinner”
And the lobster says, “I’ve already had dinner – take me to a movie”
We shall create a Ruby joke, BTW Ed, did the lobster like the movie?
R.
David A. Black wrote:
Hi –
Ruby has no mascot, and I hope it stays that way.
Ruby has _why, ergo no need for a mascot!
David A. Black wrote:
Ruby has no mascot, and I hope it stays that way.
Let’s not forget the snail fiasco
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/21962
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
David A. Black wrote:
Ruby has no mascot, and I hope it stays that way.
Let’s not forget the snail fiasco
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/21962
Snailgate.
David
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Joel VanderWerf
[email protected]wrote:
vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
+1 for Ruby never having a mascot.
Alarm bells have started to ring.