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From: vincent.diemunsch@gmail.com
Subject: Re: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 01:22:54 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2014-11-15T01:22:54-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <952e6748-144d-446d-be26-3cda1d4598e5@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08a98d3a-0f72-491c-b024-3e09c0457c03@googlegroups.com>

On Friday, November 14, 2014 5:37:17 AM UTC+1, David Botton wrote:
> This owl picture I think sums up my idea of a base for an Ada Mascot
> 
> http://devpress.com/demo/quiescent/files/2012/08/owl-50267-1200x900.jpg
> 
> Powerful, sleek, precise. Every aspect of the owl is engineered.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> David Botton

Hello David, hello all Ada enthousiasts,

For an Ada mascot, I like the idea of a bird, for the same kind of reasons you gave. But as others said, the owl sounds quite a nasty and disturbing bird, even if the ancient greeks took them for
a symbol of wisdom : "their eyes are directed forward like those of human beings" and "Most of them utter a hooting cry like a groan, and as they inhabit ruins, they sound as though mourning over the devastation, and hence symbolize in the Bible destruction and desolation"...

Therefore, even if the owl is tempting, a mascot related to "Destruction and Desolation" is not possible for Ada which is already associated with DoD and fighter...

I don't really like the Aardvark, sort of pig which lives from bugs. Sounds geek, clumsy, harmless but dirty... Definitely Not Ada (or maybe for Ada 95 perhaps.... :-) ).

My proposal : a small, nice, gentle, little bird called ... Ada in French !!! 

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(oiseau)

It is light, swift, nice, harmless, precise, poetic.

Light : because Ada, as Ichbiah said, must stay a simple langage, with fast and inexpensive compilers, enabling cost effective developments. 

Swift : because it must have good runtime performances.

Nice : necessary for a Mascot !

Harmless : not related to war.

Precise : it's a bird, not a pig.

Poetic : Ada was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet. A small bird is a poetic character : it relates to freedom and art.

It is also GREEN (in the sense of environment friendly) for it is a real bird !
 
And finally the image of a bird for a programming langage is  fashionable : Apple has taken a bird for the logo of it's new langage : Swift : https://developer.apple.com/swift/

Now I let someone gifted in drawing, create a logo and submit it for the contest

Kind regards,

Vincent 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-15  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-14  4:37 The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot David Botton
2014-11-14  5:09 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-11-14  5:31   ` David Botton
2014-11-14  5:40     ` David Botton
2014-11-14  8:55     ` Gour
2014-11-15 17:19     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-11-15 17:21     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-11-14  5:15 ` Hubert
2014-11-14 15:00   ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-14 15:26     ` David Botton
2014-11-14 16:10       ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-14  6:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-11-14  9:35   ` What makes a good mascot? (Was: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-11-14 10:24     ` David Botton
2014-11-14 10:51       ` What makes a good mascot? Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-11-14 10:54         ` David Botton
2014-11-14 10:56         ` Orca
2014-11-14 12:24           ` David Botton
2014-11-14 14:14             ` G.B.
2014-11-14 16:08           ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-14 17:52           ` jm.tarrasa
2014-11-14 18:40             ` Björn Lundin
2014-11-15  8:43           ` Mart van de Wege
2014-11-15 16:30             ` Shark8
2014-11-14 16:08     ` What makes a good mascot? (Was: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot) Luke A. Guest
2014-11-14 16:10       ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-15 23:22         ` Lucretia
2014-11-16  0:42           ` David Botton
2014-11-16  2:49             ` David Botton
2014-11-16 18:59               ` AdaMagica
2014-11-16 19:07                 ` David Botton
2014-11-16 19:15                   ` What makes a good mascot? Simon Wright
2014-11-16 19:40                     ` David Botton
2014-11-17 13:13                   ` What makes a good mascot? (Was: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot) AdaMagica
2014-11-17 14:25                     ` G.B.
2014-11-17 14:56                     ` David Botton
2014-11-17 15:11                       ` AdaMagica
2014-11-17 15:14                         ` David Botton
2014-11-17 15:29                           ` J-P. Rosen
2014-11-17 15:46                             ` AdaMagica
2014-11-17 16:50                               ` J-P. Rosen
2014-11-18  1:04                                 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-11-21 11:12                                 ` AdaMagica
2014-11-17 16:09                         ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-17 17:49                       ` Peter Chapin
2014-11-17 17:56                         ` David Botton
2014-11-17 17:57                     ` What makes a good mascot? Simon Wright
2014-11-24 11:36                       ` nospamthanks
2014-11-24 17:18                         ` Simon Wright
2014-11-14 18:53     ` What makes a good mascot? (Was: The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot) Jeffrey Carter
2014-11-14 19:13       ` David Botton
2014-11-14 20:20         ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-11-14 21:41           ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-15  0:01           ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-11-15 12:09       ` Brian Drummond
2014-11-14 15:00   ` The Owl - My Idea for the Ada mascot Luke A. Guest
2014-11-14 15:49     ` J-P. Rosen
2014-11-14 17:15   ` Brad Moore
2014-11-14 19:40     ` Brad Moore
2014-11-14 22:57       ` Qun-Ying
2014-11-14 23:57         ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-11-14 19:22   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-11-14 16:46 ` Jonathan
2014-11-15 13:49   ` Mart van de Wege
2014-11-15 16:34     ` Shark8
2014-11-14 22:24 ` rriehle
2014-11-16  0:41   ` David Botton
2014-11-15  9:22 ` vincent.diemunsch [this message]
2014-11-15  9:36   ` Gour
2014-11-15  9:36   ` vincent.diemunsch
2014-11-16  2:46   ` David Botton
2014-11-15 18:19 ` Jonathan
2014-11-16 23:09 ` Bruce Hennessy
2014-11-16 23:52   ` Luke A. Guest
2014-11-17 13:49   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-11-17  1:07 ` Simon Clubley
2014-11-17  1:19   ` David Botton
2014-11-17  9:24   ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2014-11-17 12:27   ` Brian Drummond
2014-11-19 19:30 ` johannes falcone
2014-11-19 19:51   ` David Botton
2014-11-19 23:27     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-11-21 19:00 ` sbelmont700
2014-11-21 19:20   ` David Botton
2014-11-21 23:02   ` Björn Lundin
2014-12-05 14:49     ` David Botton
2014-12-05 19:19       ` Randy Brukardt
2014-11-22 10:02   ` Natasha Kerensikova
2014-11-22 12:36     ` Jerry van Dijk
2014-11-22 18:59       ` AdaMagica
2014-11-23  9:10       ` Simon Clubley
2014-12-01 19:11     ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2014-12-01 19:14       ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2014-12-02  6:00         ` J-P. Rosen
2014-11-28  0:34 ` David Pereira
2014-11-28 16:16   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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