I've unconciously conditioned myself to think about rabbits with nukes each time I think about monads. "Warm fuzzy things" "launching the missiles" indeed.
On Friday 13 March 2009 02.38.29 Richard O'Keefe wrote: > 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". (:-) > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -- Sjur Gjøstein Karevoll sjurberen...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe