in reply to What the HEY is up with the cartoon butterfly for "Perl 6" ?!

G'day 1nickt,

I'm also not a big fan (in truth, not really a fan at all) of Camelia, the butterfly logo. The remainder of my post is intended to be for information purposes only, i.e. no personal commentary.

I note, throughout the Perl 6 Documentation, every page appears to have at the end: "The Camelia image is copyright 2009 by Larry Wall.".

In this Linux Voice Interview with Larry Wall (in 2015):

"LV: Last year in the UK, the government kicked off the Year of Code, an attempt to get young people interested in programming. There are lots of opinions about how this should be done – like whether you should teach low-level languages at the start, so that people really understand memory usage, or a high-level language. What’s your take on that?"
"LW: Up until now, the Python community has done a much better job of getting into the lower levels of education than we have. We’d like to do something in that space too, and that’s partly why we have the butterfly logo, because it’s going to be appealing to seven year old girls!"

The transcript of the interview is fairly long. The part I've quoted (which is roughly in the middle) pertains to your question but, as with all such things, you should probably read it in its original context.

The image itself contains a (not particularly well-hidden) P6: P in the left forewing and 6 in the right forewing.

"I looked for a place on the "Perl 6" website to post this as feedback, but no such link was to be found."

The http://www.perl6.org/about/ page says "Your contribution is very welcome."; however, I also see on the same page: "Camelia as the logo for Perl 6 and perl6.org is not negotiable.".

"Larry Wall would be rolling in his grave. Oh, wait ..."

Beyond the obvious "Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated." comment; I think Larry already knows about this. :-)

— Ken

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Re^2: What the HEY is up with the cartoon butterfly for "Perl 6" ?!
by 1nickt (Canon) on Dec 08, 2015 at 01:11 UTC

    Cheers, kcott, thanks for the history, I guess the cause was lost longer ago than I knew !

    The way forward always starts with a minimal test.