Re: logo design

2006-12-05 Thread Ken Tilton
Xah Lee wrote: > Logo LISP > > Xah Lee, 2006-12 > > Ken Tilton wrote: > > «Small problem. You forget that Ron Garret wants us to change the > name of Common Lisp as the sure-fire way to make it more popular (well, > hang on, he says it is necessary, not sufficient. Anyway...) I do not > th

Re: logo design

2006-12-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> > Web-badges serve slightly different purpose than logos. It is more for > the purpose of promotion, than representation. For the same reason, > there are mascots. For example, Java the language, has a official logo > of a smoking coffee cup, but also has a mascot of a penguin named > “Duke”. h

Re: logo design

2006-12-05 Thread Xah Lee
Logo LISP Xah Lee, 2006-12 Ken Tilton wrote: «Small problem. You forget that Ron Garret wants us to change the name of Common Lisp as the sure-fire way to make it more popular (well, hang on, he says it is necessary, not sufficient. Anyway...) I do not think we can safely pick a new logo unt

Re: logo design

2006-11-01 Thread Lars Rune Nøstdal
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 06:08:00 +0100, Lars Rune Nøstdal wrote: > On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:48:12 -0800, Geoffrey Summerhayes wrote: > >> Picture this: Hey, I'm switching to COBOL because its new >> logo looks great on t-shirts and mugs. > > Maybe the extra funding would improve "COBOL" and its librar

Re: logo design

2006-11-01 Thread Lars Rune Nøstdal
On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:48:12 -0800, Geoffrey Summerhayes wrote: > Picture this: Hey, I'm switching to COBOL because its new > logo looks great on t-shirts and mugs. Maybe the extra funding would improve "COBOL" and its libraries faster by letting a developer work more often on it. I'm not totall

Re: logo design

2006-11-01 Thread Geoffrey Summerhayes
Ken Tilton wrote: > alex23 wrote: > > Xah Lee wrote: > > > >>No personal offense intended, but human animal's history is what? 3000 > >>years at least in recorded history? And, all you can think of is what, > >>the view points of a fraction of your personal life span? > > > > > > Thank god evoluti

Re: logo design

2006-11-01 Thread Ken Tilton
alex23 wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > >>No personal offense intended, but human animal's history is what? 3000 >>years at least in recorded history? And, all you can think of is what, >>the view points of a fraction of your personal life span? > > > Thank god evolution spat you out to lead us all t

Re: logo design

2006-11-01 Thread Steve Holden
alex23 wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > >>No personal offense intended, but human animal's history is what? 3000 >>years at least in recorded history? And, all you can think of is what, >>the view points of a fraction of your personal life span? > > > Thank god evolution spat you out to lead us all to

Re: logo design

2006-11-01 Thread alex23
Xah Lee wrote: > No personal offense intended, but human animal's history is what? 3000 > years at least in recorded history? And, all you can think of is what, > the view points of a fraction of your personal life span? Thank god evolution spat you out to lead us all to the light, huh? No person

Re: logo design

2006-11-01 Thread Xah Lee
No personal offense intended, but human animal's history is what? 3000 years at least in recorded history? And, all you can think of is what, the view points of a fraction of your personal life span? Have you looked into, the history of fashions, icons, their roles and social significance, before

Re: logo design - BZZZT! OT!

2006-10-29 Thread Gerard Flanagan
John Bokma wrote: > Xah Lee is a well-known spammer, almost all his messages contain at least > one link to his site in the body. > > Somehow this time he limited his post to 3 groups instead of the usual 5. > Maybe talking with the right people does work. It did with Dreamhost. And > I am sure hi

Re: logo design - BZZZT! OT!

2006-10-29 Thread John Bokma
"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does the "power-that-be of lispers" spend much time on c.l.py? Even > though Python is mentioned in passing in this post, it really doesn't > need to be cross-posted here. Xah Lee is a well-known spammer, almost all his messages contain at least one

Re: logo design - BZZZT! OT!

2006-10-29 Thread Paul McGuire
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Again: the primary purpose of this message, is to beseach that the power-that-be of lispers, seriously think about getting themselves a official logo. Thanks. Does the "power-that-be of lispers" spend much time on c.l.py?

Re: logo design

2006-10-29 Thread Frank Buss
Xah Lee wrote: > I have brought this topic here here before... that i think LISP really > need to have a logo. I'm aware of “made with alien technology lisp” > web-badge, but that is a lisp-peddling badge, not a lisp logo proper. There are already many different logos, if you don't like the "made