[Haskell-cafe] Time for a new logo?
ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Tue Dec 16 17:32:46 EST 2008
On 16 Dec 2008, at 1:24 am, Álvaro Vilanova Vidal wrote:
> One more concept.
The hybrid lambda/infinity sign looks more like a bra advertisement
and the lettering is unpleasant. For one thing, the language is
called "Haskell", so a logo should not call it "haskell". (The
language cares very much about case, after all.)
Admittedly lambda signifies functions to us, but there are
probably more people who know what A -> B means than who
know what lambda means. Arguably
→ → → →
conveys something of the language (we do write
f :: a -> b -> c -> d -> e for a multiparameter function)
and also suggests something dynamic and forward-looking.
Indeed, the multiple arrows even suggest concurrency,
which is true.
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