 why the camel? well the original Perl book by Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz, published by O'Reilly had/has a camel on the cover - simple really :-) |
Perl is a programming langusge created and developed by Larry Wall and it very quickly became the 'net' language of choice. Randal was, with Larry, the author of the books many of us used to learn how to cut Perl code. Without this the development of the Internet would probably not be as far forward as it is today.
To support Randal, emoticon produced a t-shirt to help generate some funds and the original purchasers of the shirt had their email addresses enshrined on the back, together with the email addresses of Larry Wall, Randal Schwarz and Tim O'Reilly, the publisher of the Perl books.
State of Oregon v. Randal Schwartz
Buy the books
| the original back of the shirt list! | |
| lwall@netlabs.com merlyn@stonehenge.com tim@ora.com tisdall@mercator.com braven@oskar.demon.co.uk lgt@init.se harlan@cs.wisc.edu nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk wass@init.se gking@caspe.co.uk kellyj@advtech.uswest.com smarkel@sarnoff.com jgd@cix.compulink.co.uk fox@acmi.com harper@cxsoft.convex.com dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu dant@austin.ibm.com dhancock@clark.net martin@hchworth.demon.co.uk peasem@primenet.com Mathias.Koerber@swi.com.sg beecher@bellhow.com pwo@guug.de dick.chiles@sandiegoca.attgis.com eww@dlep1.itg.ti.com patrick.m.ryan@bell-atl.com slone3@llnl.gov joshp@panix.com naleks@library.ummed.edu tug@cix.compulink.co.uk bit@ten.ch jmerelo@kal-el.ugr.es joel@etish.co.uk jerry@arlut.utexas.edu pohl@dns.acton.com rbirch@cbis.com adavis@cbis.com |
schirmer@sican.de alanj32020@aol.com rhod@cs.man.ac.uk karthy@kom.auc.dk Alan.Thew@liv.ac.uk chris@westnet.com bwillis@arrakis.lu.robins.af.mil ming@iamr.demon.co.uk sandy@amoco.com rodger@boi.hp.com rene.degen@alcatel.ch peter.borocz@wfnia.com norm@godel.une.edu.au frossie@jach.hawaii.edu kgb@aao.gov.au A.T.Peel@ukc.ac.uk Rudi.Martin@edo.mts.dec.com bobd@fwi.uva.nl pll@swl.msd.ray.com fmc@pasteur.fr Danny@itm.org steave@netscan.com utashiro@iij.ad.jp Tim.Mason@ig.co.uk px@fct.unl.pt lusol@Lehigh.edu cunger@cas.org Christian.Limpach@nice.ch paulp@usenet.com david@rampart.rco.qc.ca edash@etl.noaa.gov karnott@tamucc.edu russell@weetch.demon.co.uk drew@emoticon.com gm@systmktg.demon.co.uk cloos@jhcloos.com ns@starbase.demon.co.uk |