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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: FAQ suggestion
Message-ID: <10804@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 19 Dec 90 15:59:54 GMT
References: <810@echbull.bull.fr> <14189@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com> <1990Dec6.174929.7951@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <456@stephsf.stephsf.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <456@stephsf.stephsf.com> wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England) writes:
: In article <1990Dec6.174929.7951@nntp-server.caltech.edu> jerbil@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Joseph R. Beckenbach) writes:
: 
: [...]
: >	BTW, I love the choice of animal for the cover.  [Larry, Randall, who
: >chose the octopus? 
: [...]
: 
:   Isn't it a 'Loose Jointed Camel' on the Programming Perl cover?  The
:   octopus is on the MH & xmh cover.

Right.  I don't know if it's loose-jointed, but it's definitely curtsying.
As for who chose it, I suggested a camel, and Edie Freeman of ora picked
out the particular camel, which I immediately fell in love with.  After
that, no one else had the heart (or the heartlessness) to suggest anything
else.  :-)

Larry