On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl. This is one of the many strange reasons we picked the camel to be Perl's mascot, but it doesn't have much to do with linguistics. The Colophon is three pages after the last grey index page.
OTOH, while it gives a paragraph-full of information about the camel, it gives nothing on why they decided to use a camel for the Camel.
It is ca nn onical because it can be used as an heavy projectile. It does not have the penetrative power of depleted uranium though. Books of the "unleashed collection" are pretty good arms as their name suggests but otherwise lack the good kind of density. Yes, I can spell bana nn a but I'm never sure when to stop. Sorry, I could not resist. Put it this way, you don't wanna be there when it's delivered.
Mind you, from what I've seen you don't wanna be at the other end during effusion either: Examine what is said, not who speaks. I think only how to solve the problem.
But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply. To paraphrase, perl is one of the most useful tools known to humans Back to Seekers of Perl Wisdom. Replies are listed 'Best First'. Re: What's the story behind the camel?
Maybe someone who has the pink Camel can check? Update: must be the German translation that's missing it then. Makeshifts last the longest. Most of their books have animals on the cover. I don't know why the camel instead of a flea or some other beast though. Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banannas [reply] Re: Re: What's the story behind the camel? Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banannas Yes, I can spell bana nn a but I'm never sure when to stop.
PerlMonks lovingly hand-crafted by Tim Vroom. PerlMonks somehow became entangled with The Perl Foundation. What's the story behind the camel? Need Help?? Re: Re: What's the story behind the camel? So off-topic, but I've heard Stephen Jay Gould get very annoyed with the phrase "A camel is a horse designed by a committee".
Perl is a little like that. Perl is easy to use, but sometimes hard to learn. This is a generalization, of course.
In designing Perl, Larry made many trade-offs. It would be harder to maintain and debug, too, with more variables. A good analogy is the proper and frequent use of contractions in English. Once you become familiar with Perl, you may find yourself spending less time getting shell quoting or C declarations right, and more time surfing the Web, because Perl is a great tool for leverage. Perl is a high-level language. That means that the code is dense; a Perl program may be around a quarter to three-quarters as long as the corresponding program in C.
This makes Perl faster to write, read, debug, and maintain. But with proper care, you can avoid this common accusation. Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like the notes of a grand symphony. As a result, Perl kept growing. It grew in features. It grew in portability. What was once a little language available on only a couple of Unix systems has grown to have thousands of pages of free online documentation, dozens of books, several mainstream Usenet newsgroups and a dozen newsgroups and mailing lists outside the mainstream with an uncountable number of readers and implementations on nearly every system in use today.
Perl is mostly maintained by a hardy group of people called the Perl 5 Porters. You can follow their work and discussions on the perl5-porters perl. I think we can live with those constraints, but I appreciate that some people will want a logo free of limitations. I think the long association of camels with Perl is worth the trade-off. I think we can come up with a new camel, which we are free to use as the logo for Perl.
The logo should say something about not only our language, but our community as well. Friendly and welcoming is what I'd like both to say. Something like this:. This camel was created by a graphic artist, who does this sort of a thing for a living.
I'm not saying this should be our new logo, I'm saying that we could come up with something like this and adopt it as our logo. Yes, there's a language called Caml, and OCaml, both of which use Camels for their logo, but Perl has had the camel association for 29 years now, and even if we pick a different logo, the camel association will still remain.
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