No personal offense intended, but human animal's history is what? 3000 years at least in recorded history? And, all you can think of is what, the view points of a fraction of your personal life span?
Have you looked into, the history of fashions, icons, their roles and social significance, before you embarked and embraced on your above-it attitude about why should or should not your pet language lisp have a logo? As per more detailed reasons on the meaning of logos, it's social significance, its role in modern society, the defining characteristics of logo design, and why LISP needs a logo, i'll post a reply to this thread wthin a month. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ∑ http://xahlee.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 28, 10:24 pm, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have brought this topic here here before... that i think LISP really > > need to have a logo. > > No offense intended, but were you around in 1959 or so? The way > that time passes in the computer science world, having a logo for > Lisp is like having a logo for the abacus ;) Besides, who are _we_ > to go back and impose our modern ideas of what looks "slick" and > pretty on the great thinkers of an earlier age? Should we make a > logo for the Pythagorean Theorem or for Newton's Three Laws? > > > Python, did not really have a logo. I made a plaint more than once in > > different periods of times to comp.lang.python. Them tech geeking > > morons and assholes, as expected, made irrelevant and incoherent cries. > > I personally have a lot of respect for Python hackers and I think > you should too. We Lispers should show our greatness by not > stooping to such insults ;) > > mfh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
