What? Never heard that one. But I have heard a horse built by committee is a camel; if not obvious, this is highly critical of committees. Also, O'Reilly uses the camel to symbolize Perl because...
Perl is kind of ugly. This is true. O’Reilly’s symbol for Perl is the camel, the animal on the cover of the venerable Camel book (also known as Programming Perl), a cousin of this Llama (and her sister, the Alpaca). Camels are kind of ugly, too. But they work hard, even in tough conditions. Camels get the job done despite all difficulties even when they look bad and smell worse and sometimes spit at you. Perl is a little like that.[1]
Google just informed me that a camel can be symbolic of travel and journeys, wisdom, endurance, survival, service, self-sufficiency, conservation, and, of course, stamina. Camels are also sometimes crude in odor and behavior, but their value far outweighs their lack of etiquette.
But I have never heard of referring to a perfect solution as a camel. Did you just invent this, or is it a common symbol in programming for a perfect solution?
What? Never heard that one. But I have heard a horse built by committee is a camel; if not obvious, this is highly critical of committees. Also, O'Reilly uses the camel to symbolize Perl because...
Perl is kind of ugly. This is true. O’Reilly’s symbol for Perl is the camel, the animal on the cover of the venerable Camel book (also known as Programming Perl), a cousin of this Llama (and her sister, the Alpaca). Camels are kind of ugly, too. But they work hard, even in tough conditions. Camels get the job done despite all difficulties even when they look bad and smell worse and sometimes spit at you. Perl is a little like that.[1]
Google just informed me that a camel can be symbolic of travel and journeys, wisdom, endurance, survival, service, self-sufficiency, conservation, and, of course, stamina. Camels are also sometimes crude in odor and behavior, but their value far outweighs their lack of etiquette.
But I have never heard of referring to a perfect solution as a camel. Did you just invent this, or is it a common symbol in programming for a perfect solution?
[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-perl-fourth/05...