[Haskell-cafe] Time for a new logo?

[Thomas Davie]

On 17 Dec 2008, at 09:26, Luke Palmer wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Thomas Davie <tom.davie at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
> On 16 Dec 2008, at 18:40, Darrin Thompson wrote:
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> Oh please no, please don't let the logo be something that says  
> "Haskell, it's all about monads".
>
> But it's a very pretty logo.  And the idea of "computation  
> abstractions", Applicatives and Monads in particular, are a pretty  
> big part of Haskell as a language and as a culture.   Haskell, it's  
> not exactly not about monads.

No, I agree, but there's already a large body of literature that  
implies that Haskell is pretty much only about monads, and I'd hate to  
see the logo go the same way.  Though I do take your point about  
abstractions being a major part of the language.

Bob
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