What's the deal with those covers? I mean, when you have a language like Python, it's easy to come up with an animal for a cover
But even then, you can screw things up. What does learning a language named Python and a mouse or a rabbit (or whatever that is) have in common? Am i going to be eaten by it?
Well, there's a background story for this whole thing
But it still doesn't answer why JavaScript is pictured in so different ways
A rhino, a butterfly and an owl. Yep, it doesn't make sense in the same way as famous Perl's camel:
Either way, I believe we can find some wisdom on those covers that give you a hint on the road ahead.
Like Perl 6 being popular again is a chimera
Or that programming Python on Windows is dangerous if you get too close to that pond
Not everything has to be bad though. You also get great advice
Like have two people doing RegExps
Or that you'll get yelled at for selecting a stack
And that "Learning Carbon" is like puppy sex.
Sometimes it seems they want everyone to be happy, even when they have nothing in common
Sure, you're a lazy SJW that lets the women hunt. Oh well, better than being a Microsoft's
dirty little snake or a
bug eating monkey. But if you feel sad, remember, it could only be worse, like using
vim and having to fix a bug on a production server over a
slow SSH connection.
Anyway, I invite you to the wonderful world of O'Reilly's book covers, which cover every technology you can imagine by simply doing a