top | item 35917971 Why do programming books have animals on the covers? 4 points| sam537 | 2 years ago |websitehurdles.com 2 comments order hn newest sam537|2 years ago Mildly interesting. eesmith|2 years ago The source, https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreil... , is rather more interesting.What was the first animal book? The Xlib reference manual (1990) does not use it. https://archive.org/details/xlibrefmanv115ed02nyemissProgramming Perl (1991) used a camel. https://archive.org/details/programmingperl000wallAhh, Learning the vi Editor (1990) had an animal. https://archive.org/details/learningvieditor00lamb_0So did Using C on the UNIX system : a guide to system programming (1989), https://archive.org/details/usingconunixsyst00curr . With a lion.
sam537|2 years ago Mildly interesting. eesmith|2 years ago The source, https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreil... , is rather more interesting.What was the first animal book? The Xlib reference manual (1990) does not use it. https://archive.org/details/xlibrefmanv115ed02nyemissProgramming Perl (1991) used a camel. https://archive.org/details/programmingperl000wallAhh, Learning the vi Editor (1990) had an animal. https://archive.org/details/learningvieditor00lamb_0So did Using C on the UNIX system : a guide to system programming (1989), https://archive.org/details/usingconunixsyst00curr . With a lion.
eesmith|2 years ago The source, https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreil... , is rather more interesting.What was the first animal book? The Xlib reference manual (1990) does not use it. https://archive.org/details/xlibrefmanv115ed02nyemissProgramming Perl (1991) used a camel. https://archive.org/details/programmingperl000wallAhh, Learning the vi Editor (1990) had an animal. https://archive.org/details/learningvieditor00lamb_0So did Using C on the UNIX system : a guide to system programming (1989), https://archive.org/details/usingconunixsyst00curr . With a lion.
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eesmith|2 years ago
What was the first animal book? The Xlib reference manual (1990) does not use it. https://archive.org/details/xlibrefmanv115ed02nyemiss
Programming Perl (1991) used a camel. https://archive.org/details/programmingperl000wall
Ahh, Learning the vi Editor (1990) had an animal. https://archive.org/details/learningvieditor00lamb_0
So did Using C on the UNIX system : a guide to system programming (1989), https://archive.org/details/usingconunixsyst00curr . With a lion.