On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:52:49PM +0100, Achim Schneider wrote: > Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk> 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 thought of Amtrak, > > but it made me think of the flags of Mozambique and South > > Africa. > > > I had to google for Amtrak, I didn't know they even existed. I did know > that Mozambique and South Africa exist, and googling up their flags I > discovered that there are as many resemblances to lambda-bind as there > are to the Logo to the Deutsche Bank. Amtrak looks wholly different to > me: It doesn't even have straight lines, and it's 3d. >
Amtrak changed their logo in 2000; the old logo looked like >>=. See the wikipedia article. Amusingly, I also learned from the wikipedia article that critics dubbed this logo the "pointless arrow". =) -Brent _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
