On 20/08/2008, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown / gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. :)

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