[Haskell-cafe] (fwd) Haskell logo fail

2009-06-17 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:06:42 -0700 (PDT), in comp.lang.haskell Robert
Hicks sigz...@gmail.com wrote:

http://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/logo.html

From the site referenced at the above-mentioned URL:

Tue, 16 Jun 2009

Haskell logo fail
The Haskell folks have chosen a new logo.

image of new Haskell logo

image of Amtrak logo

ouch

The two logos do look disturbingly similar

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] (fwd) Haskell logo fail

2009-06-17 Thread Martijn van Steenbergen

Benjamin L.Russell wrote:

image of new Haskell logo

image of Amtrak logo

ouch


The two logos do look disturbingly similar


This is nothing new. From [1]:


Amtrak changed their logo in 2000; the old logo looked like =.


Martijn.


[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg56376.html
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] (fwd) Haskell logo fail

2009-06-17 Thread Jason Dusek
  Why don't we have a picture of a cool dinosaur instead?

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