Petition for Programming F#’s Book Cover!

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Erik — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:42:12 GMT

@ogsy: Cheer up pig, don't you cry... =)

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Erik — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:41:48 GMT

.... I want to play D&D with you...

Lol

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Ogsy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:19:35 GMT

I think you should get the Kraken from Magical Trevor. If I'm not mistaken his face is a haddock.

Programming F# – Official Cover

Chris Smith's completely unique view — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:18:00 GMT

So as it turns out my petition for a kickass cover was ultimately unsuccessful. But the good news is

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Niklas — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:40:43 GMT

I think the Unix in a Nutshell cover animal is awesome -- it's exactly what every Unix guy I've encountered looks like.

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verisimilidude — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:46:55 GMT

All the animals on the O'Reilly covers (AFAIK) come from a Dover book of copyright free animal pictures. I doubt that the book is still in print but it is mentioned in some of the colophons. Get a used copy off Amazon (or BN, etc.), look through it, and pick an animal from there. I think that you will get a much better reception from the O'Reilly people if you allow them to keep their meme. Just like if you try to add your workstation into a net that names their machines after animals you would get lots of push back if you wanted to name your machine Seattle.

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L.M.R.O.B. — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:33:14 GMT

Dude, copyright laws don't make lawyers cry at night, they make lawyers lots of money. And I think that animal on the Unix book is some variation of lemur. Is there a reason the Cthulhu isn't being considered? ;)

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Mike Cheel — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:57:56 GMT

What about a platypus? It's made up of parts that are not normally found together much like F#. If it must be an animal I vote for this.

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Zach — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:30:48 GMT

Proteus would make another good one, although you would probably want to get a custom artists' rendition of the character. Check out the Wikipedia article on Proteus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus#.22Proteus.22_and_.22protean.22_in_English

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Jarle Stabell — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:02:53 GMT

I'm not on Twitter, but I think your Hydra cover suggestion is great. I also very much like the Ouroboros due to its obvious "tail recursion".