Re: It's a jungle out there

[Stefan Linecker <linecker gmail com>]

maybe the classical assignmengt "oreilly book cover <=> programming language"
can provide some inspiration:

http://www.lyceejulesfil.com/icones/oreilly/


love,
stefan

On 9/13/05, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:
> I did some doodles of a parrot drinking coffie and decided that was
> java, I'm still trying to come up with a good animal for C++, would be
> nice to have something that lives in the jungle. On the other hand, who
> cares about what animals live in the jungle and who don't?
>
> Santiago Roza wrote:
>
> > sounds cool, but we're gonna have a hard time finding animals for some
> > languages.  i'm not a programmer (or anything like that :) ), but i
> > can think of php's unofficial "elephpant"...
> > http://www.elroubio.net/?p=adopt_an_elephpant
> >
> > and maybe the fsf's gnu for c (because it's the main language for the
> > linux kernel and the gnu apps, not to mention it's rms' language of
> > choice)
> > http://www.gnu.org/graphics/agnuhead.html
> >
> > On 9/13/05, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I've been thinking of a web-campain the last days to promote the fact
> > > that you can use a whole bunch of languages to develop your
> > > GNOME-applications. C#, Python, Java, C++, C etc.
> > > The idea is to present some popular languages with a short
> > > introductionary text about the language and links to bindings, tutorials
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > I've been playing with the idea to present every language as an animal
> > > in the (language-)jungle. Mono is a monkey, Python is a snake etc. As I
> > > know about zero programming, someone with knowledge in that area will
> > > have to write some content.
> > > I'll sit down tonight and see if I can come up with some nice mockups.
> > >
> > > What do you think. It would be really nice to turn some more developers
> > > towards GNOME.
> > > - Andreas
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