On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:51 AM, David A. Black <dblack / rubypal.com> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
>
>> The likeliness to the BSD Devil is intentional, Darwin uses a lot of BSD
>> code.
>> The Darwin kernel (Mach) is mostly pure, but the tools and utils layer
>> is all BSD.
>> Similarly, Hexley is basically the Platypus, but one *wearing* and
>> *bearing* the horned hat and trident.
>>
>> 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. :)

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