On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Conrad Schneiker wrote:

> Dave Thomas writes,
> 
> # We just heard that there's going to be a second printing of
> # Programming Ruby, and AWL need all corrections by Wednesday (thanks
> # for the notice, guys ;-)
> # 
> # So, 
> <...>
> # does anyone have anything they want changed? 
> 
> Yea. I would like a different cover graphic. 
> 
> Although a pickaxe and rocks might have some relevance for refactoring, 
> "the pickaxe book" isn't too catchy. 

Refactoring?  I thought it was hacking :-)

> How about a picture of a wizard with a handful of rubies or Einstein in 
> his prime or Tesla in his Colorado lab or a hand grasping lightning bolts 
> or a brain? --> "The wizard book" or "the Einstein book" or "the lightning 
> book".

Now, is that:  (a hand grasping lightning bolts) or (a brain)
or:            a hand grasping (lightning bolts or a brain)

The hippocampus book....


David

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