[Haskell-cafe] A Mascot

Brent Yorgey byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Thu Nov 17 17:11:37 CET 2011


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:28:47AM +0100, Alexander Bernauer wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:18:04PM -0800, John Meacham wrote:
> > People tend to concentrate on the lambda which cooresponds to the
> > functional aspect of haskell when designing logos. Not nearly enough
> > attention is paid to the other striking feature, the laziness.
> 
> If we want to emphasize the lazyness, why not a sloth instead of a lamb?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth <- is this cute or what ;-)

Sloths are not lazy, they are just slow.  I doubt that's the
impression we want to give of Haskell. =)

-Brent



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