Re: It's a jungle out there

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

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:
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> > 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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