Hi All,

I am just starting my D adventure, I chose D over Go ! I think it will kool to have some marketing behind D. A mascot "Dragon" will look good ?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0YqxfqC5Ero/TfCTFkcPHbI/AAAAAAAACNY/UaKuBVRyOpw/s1600/Skeleton_Dragon_Knight_Tattoo.jpg

What do you guys think ?

-Adam

On Thursday, 5 April 2012 at 16:28:52 UTC, crudbug wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am just starting my D adventure, I chose D over Go ! I think it will kool to have some marketing behind D. A mascot "Dragon" will look good ?
>
> http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0YqxfqC5Ero/TfCTFkcPHbI/AAAAAAAACNY/UaKuBVRyOpw/s1600/Skeleton_Dragon_Knight_Tattoo.jpg
>
> What do you guys think ?
>
> -Adam

Shh...you're going to hurt D Man's feelings: http://dlang.org/images/d3.gif

LLVM already uses a dragon very similar to that.  I don't really think D needs a mascot, personally.

Regards,
Brad Anderson

Le 05/04/2012 18:33, Brad Anderson a écrit :
> On Thursday, 5 April 2012 at 16:28:52 UTC, crudbug wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am just starting my D adventure, I chose D over Go ! I think it will
>> kool to have some marketing behind D. A mascot "Dragon" will look good ?
>>
>> http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0YqxfqC5Ero/TfCTFkcPHbI/AAAAAAAACNY/UaKuBVRyOpw/s1600/Skeleton_Dragon_Knight_Tattoo.jpg
>>
>>
>> What do you guys think ?
>>
>> -Adam
>
> Shh...you're going to hurt D Man's feelings: http://dlang.org/images/d3.gif
>
> LLVM already uses a dragon very similar to that. I don't really think D
> needs a mascot, personally.
>
> Regards,
> Brad Anderson

D man is fun, but ugly. However, the dragoon is already used, and I think it is better to have a friendly mascot, this dragon look sharp and agile, but not very friendly :D

BTW, having a nice mascot for D is something I definitively think is good.

deadalnix wrote:

> Le 05/04/2012 18:33, Brad Anderson a écrit :
>> On Thursday, 5 April 2012 at 16:28:52 UTC, crudbug wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am just starting my D adventure, I chose D over Go ! I think it
will
>>> kool to have some marketing behind D. A mascot "Dragon" will look
good ?
>>>
>>> 
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0YqxfqC5Ero/TfCTFkcPHbI/AAAAAAAACNY/UaKuBVRyOpw/s1600/Skeleton_Dragon_Knight_Tattoo.jpg
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you guys think ?
>>>
>>> -Adam
>>
>> Shh...you're going to hurt D Man's feelings: http://dlang.org/images/d3.gif
>>
>> LLVM already uses a dragon very similar to that. I don't really
think D
>> needs a mascot, personally.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Brad Anderson
> 
> D man is fun, but ugly. However, the dragoon is already used, and I think it is better to have a friendly mascot, this dragon look sharp
and
> agile, but not very friendly :D
> 
> BTW, having a nice mascot for D is something I definitively think is
good.

How about a (digital) martian? :)

On Apr 5, 2012 4:24 PM, "Zbigniew Radosz" <zbiggy1@o2.pl> wrote
>
> How about a (digital) martian? :)

Lol it took me a second to get it.  Great one :)

Honestly I think having a planet and its moons for »mascots« is amazing enough!

On 4/5/12 1:24 PM, Zbigniew Radosz wrote:
> How about a (digital) martian? :)

You mean this guy?
http://www.disney.co.uk/john-carter/characters/tars-tarkas.html

David Gileadi wrote:

> You mean this guy? http://www.disney.co.uk/john-carter/characters/tars-tarkas.html

Nice picture. But he's probably copyrighted...

Dne 5.4.2012 18:28, crudbug napsal(a):
> Hi All,
>
> I am just starting my D adventure, I chose D over Go ! I think it will
> kool to have some marketing behind D. A mascot "Dragon" will look good ?
>
> http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0YqxfqC5Ero/TfCTFkcPHbI/AAAAAAAACNY/UaKuBVRyOpw/s1600/Skeleton_Dragon_Knight_Tattoo.jpg
>
>
> What do you guys think ?
>
> -Adam

Hi, Adam,

I must say that this dragon look very much like a mascot for the BackTrack, a penetration testing distro:

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/wp-content/gallery/bt5-wallpapers/Backtrack_5_blue.jpg

Martin

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 06:39:57PM +0200, deadalnix wrote:
> Le 05/04/2012 18:33, Brad Anderson a écrit :
[...]
> >Shh...you're going to hurt D Man's feelings: http://dlang.org/images/d3.gif
> >
> >LLVM already uses a dragon very similar to that. I don't really think D needs a mascot, personally.
[...]
> 
> D man is fun, but ugly.
[...]

This inspired me to hack some povray code to model better D man (3-D
man?). I'll post something when I get it ready for consumption. :-)


T

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