Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-21 Thread Rick R
but the rest of it looks like a fat lady bending over. 2009/3/21 Henning Thielemann > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jon Fairbairn wrote: > > ::Haskell >> > > See the lamp in logo 33 at > http://www.haskell.org/logos/poll.html > > ___ > Haskell-Cafe mailing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-21 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jon Fairbairn wrote: ::Haskell See the lamp in logo 33 at http://www.haskell.org/logos/poll.html ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-21 Thread Ketil Malde
Achim Schneider writes: > :: might be truly Haskell in the sense that everybody else uses > plain :, but I don't want Haskell to be associated with squareness, and > typing, by itself, is hardly a distinguishing property of Haskell. I guess laziness is the most distinguishing property, and there

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-21 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:52:49PM +0100, Achim Schneider wrote: > Jon Fairbairn wrote: > > > That's where that particular design falls down. >>= is an > > ugly symbol in the first place, and while the pun with a > > lambda in the middle provides some intellectual > > satisfaction, it doesn't out

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-21 Thread Achim Schneider
Jon Fairbairn wrote: > That's where that particular design falls down. >>= is an > ugly symbol in the first place, and while the pun with a > lambda in the middle provides some intellectual > satisfaction, it doesn't outweigh the fussiness of its shape > or the irrelevant associations. I hadn't t

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-21 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Warren Harris writes: > Hi Jon, > > I agree with much of your rant, and would agree that the > logo is probably the least interesting about haskell, but I > think that it's worth spending a little time to spiffy up > haskell's image from a marketing perspective. I don't disagree with that. I'

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-21 Thread Anton Tayanovskyy
> I propose to use concordet voting to appoint a new king from the 100 > aspiring candidates ... ;) Good point.. Just noticed that I managed to misspell Don Stewart's name :( Sorry! And thanks for pointing that out! Speaking of Concordet voiting.. :) Have you checked out Arrow's impossibility th

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-20 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Anton Tayanovskyy wrote: > Didn't Haskell have a syntax king? I vote for a logo king: let Don > Steward decide which logo is best. --A I propose to use concordet voting to appoint a new king from the 100 aspiring candidates ... ;) Regards, apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com __

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-20 Thread Anton Tayanovskyy
Didn't Haskell have a syntax king? I vote for a logo king: let Don Steward decide which logo is best. --A ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-20 Thread Warren Harris
Hi Jon, I agree with much of your rant, and would agree that the logo is probably the least interesting about haskell, but I think that it's worth spending a little time to spiffy up haskell's image from a marketing perspective. Although I downplayed much of my design decisions by focusin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-20 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
I agree... On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote: > >> semi-rant warning: > >> > >> This whole badge/logo business seems to me to be an excellent example > >> of Parkinson's law of triviality (choosing the colour of the > >> bikeshed). We have a large (too large) number of variati

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-20 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Neil" == Neil Mitchell writes: >>> semi-rant warning: >>> >>> This whole badge/logo business seems to me to be an excellent >>> example of Parkinson's law of triviality (choosing the colour >>> of the bikeshed). We have a large (too large) number of >>> variations

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-20 Thread Neil Mitchell
>> semi-rant warning: >> >> This whole badge/logo business seems to me to be an excellent example >> of Parkinson's law of triviality (choosing the colour of the >> bikeshed). We have a large (too large) number of variations on >> relatively few themes and a really sophisticated voting system, but

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-20 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
Jon Fairbairn wrote: > > semi-rant warning: > > This whole badge/logo business seems to me to be an excellent example > of Parkinson's law of triviality (choosing the colour of the > bikeshed). We have a large (too large) number of variations on > relatively few themes and a really sophisticated

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

2009-03-20 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Warren Harris writes: > After spending a bit of time trying to decide how to vote, I > ended up deciding that my favorite would be a hybrid of > several of the designs (#9 & #49 FalconNL, and #50 George > Pollard). It's probably too late to include this in the > voting, but here it is nonethel