On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 00:10 -0800, Ashley Yakeley wrote: > I browsed around a bit for logos from other languages... > ... > All of these get one thing right that the current and most of the > proposed Haskell logos do not: they don't make any reference to the > syntax of the language itself. Doing so seems to miss the point of a > logo: it's supposed to appeal visually, rather than semantically. So I'd > like to see some submissions that don't use lambdas.
I commented on this to Cale; > ... the mountain is the only real 'iconic' one :), ruby has a ruby, > python has pythons, java has its coffee, lua has the moon, Scheme had > the lambda before Haskell, perl has its (de facto) camel, etc. C(++|#) > and older languages tend to be the odd ones out This is why I like Cale's mountain (which incorporates a sneaky lambda ;P). A mountain peak/summit/apex also has nice connotations! http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_logos/New_logo_ideas#Cale_Gibbard
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