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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:28 Oct 2000 at 22:51:10
Subject:Re: Programming on Amiga

Andy Wanless said,

>> Cool, I'll take a look-see. Thanks. I don't understand the 'flamingo' stuff
>> though...

> A lot of the O'Reilly books have animals on the front. The Dynamic HTML
> one has a flamingo on the cover. Hence it's the flamingo book. The
> 'Programming Perl' book has a camel on the front, and I don't know anyone
> that calls it anything other than 'The camel book'.

The Camel book is the only one of the O'Reilly books I have that
actually copyrights the use of an animal.

"The use of a camel image in association with the Perl language is a
trademark of O'Reilly Associates".

You don't see similar statements in the Rhino book or the Spider book.
(OK, trademarking a spider in relation to the web may be a bit tricky).

> (Anyone who ever write
> more than 3 lines of perl is also legally obliged to buy a copy, I think).

Most people only write two and filch the rest :)

> It's either that or call it "Larry Wall's Bumper Book of Punctuation" ;)

LOL.

Neil



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