Quite a convincing plea :)
Am Mittwoch, den 02.09.2020, 12:07 -0400 schrieb John Cotton Ericson: > Yeah I think the old "functional programming is slow" memes died off about > when the rest of the industry went on its JavaScript bender, so I am not > really worried about the negative connotations of turtles. > The positive connotations of turtles sounds very good to me. Besides safety, > the longevity of at least giant tortoises also speaks to GHC's rare ability > to stay at the vanguard of research while still being wildly used. > Their ability to walk and swim speaks to the diverse backends that can be > attached to GHC (NCG, LLVM, GHCJS, Asterius, Clash's, etc.). > Even the fable, from which the slowness myth comes from I guess, goes well > with "avoid success at all costs". > Conversely I am not a fan of choosing a Cat. I like Cats fine in real life, > don't get be wrong, but Cats are so popular on the internet that this would > be the the unmarked animal choice, with no clear connotations or > memorability. I think that would be the juvenile choice, per Ben's slippery > slope. > Foxes are nice, but I think Firefox has that for life. > Octopuses are alright. GitHub's Octocat doesn't doesn't pose nearly as much > of a problem as Firefox for foxes. Still, while Octopuses are smart, they are > usually solitary and mischievous. GHC is very much a long-term group effort, > belying the solitary connotation, and I certainly hope any compiler I use > isn't mischievous! > A turtle for a compiler is a bold choice that indicates our values, > confidence that the performance of compiled code is immune to cheap derision, > and humor. > John > P.S. The funny patterns on turtles' backs could be made of lambdas?... > P.P.S. and yes, if it does compel us to fix rampant list appending just so > we're fast on all fronts, that would be nice too :). > On 9/2/20 11:47 AM, Ben Gamari wrote: > > Richard Eisenberg <r...@richarde.dev> writes: > > > > > I'm oddly drawn to the idea of a turtle -- except that turtles are > > > slow. But animals are cute. Maybe something involving a fox, given > > > that foxes can be clever? Octopuses are also known to be very clever, > > > but maybe GitHub has octopuses covered. > > > > > > > In general I'm rather neutral on the logo question. There is a fine line > > between "juvenile" (which may detract from the project's credibility in > > the eyes of some) and "cute" (which I think is universally a Good > > Thing); the current rather boring logo was a quick attempt to satisfy > > the need for some logo while recognizing that I lack the artistic > > ability to walk that line. I don't think it's a bad logo but it's quite > > dull and far from being a *good* logo. I do hope someone steps up to do > > better. > > > > Logos aside, I do feel the need to correct the record here: you > > clearly have not seen how quickly a turtle can move when offered banana > > or shrimp. They can be quite quick when suitably incentivized! > > > > Cheers, > > > > - Ben > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ghc-devs mailing list > > ghc-devs@haskell.org > > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs -- Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
