Re: [Haskell-cafe] monadic logo

2009-03-12 Thread Anton van Straaten
Gregg Reynolds wrote: What is distinctive about Haskell it's use of the monad. The The Pythagorean monad symbol is wonderfully simple: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(Greek_philosophy) It has the added benefit that if you put a pair of those on the chest of a suitably curvy cartoon cha

Re: [Haskell-cafe] monadic logo

2009-03-12 Thread Thomas Davie
On 12 Mar 2009, at 15:04, Gregg Reynolds wrote: At risk of becoming the most hated man in all Haskelldom, I'd like to suggest that the Haskell logo not use lambda symbols. Or at least not as the central element. Sorry, I know I'm late to the party, but the thing is there is nothing disti

[Haskell-cafe] monadic logo

2009-03-12 Thread Gregg Reynolds
At risk of becoming the most hated man in all Haskelldom, I'd like to suggest that the Haskell logo not use lambda symbols. Or at least not as the central element. Sorry, I know I'm late to the party, but the thing is there is nothing distinctive about lambda; it's common to all FPLs. Besides, Li