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

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 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,

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

2009-03-21 Thread Ketil Malde
Achim Schneider bars...@web.de 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

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

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

2009-03-20 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Neil == Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com 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 on

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 no very

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

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 ndmitch...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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

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