[R] what about a mascot ?

[David Forrest]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, internautem wrote:

> My friend Veslot proposed me the Raven !
> http://www.teteamodeler.com/allopass/images/corbeau.jpg
>
> As a matter of fact the intelligence of this bird is
> comparable to one of a monkey, although its brain is close to
> a reptile brain. R is quite the same : small, compact, but so
> clever.

I like it.  It makes me think of Poe's "The Raven":

http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html

Although the poem is a bit dark, I like the shared features of R and the
Raven: terse, (keyboard-) tapping, answering questions, and making
predictions.

Dave
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