[Haskell-cafe] New book: Real-World Haskell!

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Thu May 24 06:17:58 EDT 2007


On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 15:22:05 -0700, Scott Cruzen wrote:
>* Dan Weston <westondan at imageworks.com> [070523 12:41]:
>>  What power animal have you chosen for the cover of your O'Reilly
>>  book? Alas, most of the good ones are gone already!
>
>I'd like to suggest the Mantis shrimp because they have excellent
>vision, they're long lived and they pack a punch.
>
>I haven't checked, but it's almost certainly not already used.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp

They have their menagerie online[1] so it's easy to check what animals
that have been used already.  Personally I think a sloth would be suited
for a lazy language like Haskell :-)

/M

[1]: http://www.oreilly.com/animals.html

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