Camel wins with Raptor. Camel's durability and versatility "features" better represent what Perl language is about. Raptors are... extinct, which may not be an issue for brands like Ford Raptor but may bring negative association in case of a language that is being slowly phased out in many areas (for example no longer installed by default in modern OSes).
Silhouette wins with detailed drawing. I fully agree with your arguments that book cover does not make good logo.
Open contest wins with hired artist. Just let people submit ideas and make a poll at the end.
O'Reily blue wins with anything else. Logo should have unique and recognizable color and Perl already has one from Camel Book.
So in my opinion there should be open source contest for variant of silhouette blue camel logo.
So in my opinion there should be open source contest for variant of silhouette blue camel logo.
Guess the attempt of the raptor was exactly to play over this assertion: supposedly extinct but very much alive.
Actually, Camel book first edition was pink. We want that back!