Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Withers
Jack Diederich wrote: It's Xah Lee, he's been trolling this and every other programing language group for over 10 years (preferably all at once). Let it go. I don't suppose there's any chance of just blocking the idiot, is there? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & P

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-05 Thread Adam Michalik
Kenneth Tilton writes: > Hunh? He has done a nice job of collecting different logos and putting > them all in one place where one can see them all just by > scrolling. ie, it's a cool web page with added value available nowhere > else. But it's Xah Lee. He is evil and so are all his works. His w

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-03 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Oct 2, 7:33 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, > context, detail, see bottom of: > > • A Lambda Logo Tour >  http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html Interesting.. rant. Thanks for the logo collection, though, some of them are visua

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-03 Thread Jack Diederich
It's Xah Lee, he's been trolling this and every other programing language group for over 10 years (preferably all at once). Let it go. On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Chris Withers wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: >> >> Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, >> context, detail,

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-03 Thread Nick Keighley
On 3 Oct, 00:33, Xah Lee wrote: > Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, > context, detail, see bottom of: > > • A Lambda Logo Tour >  http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html I'm amazed he thinks anyone would donate 3 USD to that site -- http://mail.python

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-03 Thread Tim Rowe
2009/10/3 Xah Lee : > for my criticism or comment on logos, typical response by these people > are showcases of complete ignorance of social function of logos [snip and rearrange] > discussed now and then in these communities often without my > involvement. > “you are a fucking idiot... > moth

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-03 Thread Robert H
http://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/logo.html Oops... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-02 Thread Chris Withers
Xah Lee wrote: Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, context, detail, see bottom of: What does this have to do with Python? Nothing. So why are you posting it to comp.lang.python? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-02 Thread Dave Searles
Xah Lee wrote: Haskell has a new logo. [Blam! It fucking blows because lambda means pure functional] A truly pure functional language would be useless for anything but programming space heaters. Lambda seems not inappropriate on any language that strongly supports a functional style. Schem

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-02 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: Kenneth Tilton writes: Xah Lee wrote: Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, context, detail, see bottom of: • A Lambda Logo Tour http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html Don't do that! If you want to watch the logo, just

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-02 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Kenneth Tilton writes: > Xah Lee wrote: >> Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, >> context, detail, see bottom of: >> • A Lambda Logo Tour >> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html Don't do that! If you want to watch the logo, just google for haskell

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-02 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Xah Lee wrote: Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, context, detail, see bottom of: • A Lambda Logo Tour http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html Cool survey, and yes, that is a nice new one for Haskell. I saw beauty the other day changing an applicati

Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-02 Thread Xah Lee
Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, context, detail, see bottom of: • A Lambda Logo Tour http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html this is posted here because it relates to various computer software/ language's logo, a subject discussed by me several times