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

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 20:37:12 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>Magnus Therning wrote:
>>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 :-)
>>  
>
>Oh that has *got* to be used already! ;-)

I thought so too, but it doesn't seem to be.

However, it seems the list I pointed to isn't complete.  There's an
O'Reilly book about OpenSSL that has sea lions and seals on the cover,
however I couldn't find it among the titles.

/M

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