Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Logos of Other Languages

2008-12-20 Thread Niklas Broberg
An homage to syntax at least gives an easily recognizable icon, far more iconic than a camel or a grid of colours, and I would consider several of the lambda based ideas on the wiki simple, elegant and visually appealing. Exactly! Cheers, /Niklas

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Logos of Other Languages

2008-12-19 Thread Jon Fairbairn
Ashley Yakeley ash...@semantic.org writes: All of these get one thing right that the current and most of the proposed Haskell logos do not: they don't make any reference to the syntax of the language itself. Doing so seems to miss the point of a logo: it's supposed to appeal visually, rather

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Logos of Other Languages

2008-12-19 Thread Ashley Yakeley
George Pollard wrote: This is why I like Cale's mountain (which incorporates a sneaky lambda ;P). A mountain peak/summit/apex also has nice connotations! http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_logos/New_logo_ideas#Cale_Gibbard I think it would be better without the lambda. In fact, many of

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Logos of Other Languages

2008-12-19 Thread mail
Ashley Yakeley ash...@semantic.org writes: All of these get one thing right that the current and most of the proposed Haskell logos do not: they don't make any reference to the syntax of the language itself. Doing so seems to miss the point of a logo: it's supposed to appeal visually, rather