[Haskell-cafe] Re: Sugestion for a Haskell mascot

Richard O'Keefe ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Thu Mar 12 21:38:29 EDT 2009


On 12 Mar 2009, at 11:08 pm, Satnam Singh wrote:

> I agree that looking for a mascot that is inspired by "laziness" is  
> a bad idea from a P.R. perspective (I am tired of people walking out  
> the room when I give Haskell talks to general audiences and explain  
> lazy evaluation).

Perhaps we should call it "Just-In-Time evaluation.

As for mascots, let's take a photo of Simon Peyton Jones,
shrink him to hobbit size, give him furry feet, and announce
that "here is one of the warm fuzzy things we have in mind
when we use monads".  (:-)



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