Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Edi Weitz
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Charles Sullivan wrote: > Has a chameleon been suggested? A lizard: http://normal-null.de/lisp_logo.php Edi. ___ pro mailing list pro@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Didier Verna
We need a sheep as a logo. Given that you can write lisp in lisp, it's really the language to "lamb da lamb"... -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Scott L. Burson
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Andrew Shalit wrote: > If we're looking for an animal that's mastered the lambda calculus, clearly > we should go with ouroboros. A capital suggestion! I will use it on the Lisp-powered Web site I am currently developing. -- Scott __

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Tom Emerson
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Charles Sullivan wrote: > Has a chameleon been suggested?  That would try to evoke an important aspect > of the language.  Maybe, as Steve suggested, as an animated gif of changing > colors I associate the Chameleon with SuSE Linux --- probably not worth adding

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Charles Sullivan
Has a chameleon been suggested? That would try to evoke an important aspect of the language. Maybe, as Steve suggested, as an animated gif of changing colors Charles On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Daniel Weinreb wrote: > > > Raffael Cavallaro wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Steve

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Jorge Tavares
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 19:23, Daniel Weinreb wrote: > > My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex. > > > It might be risky to associate lisp with both a dinosaur, and an outdated > interpretation of how that dinosaur looked in life > > Indeed, the "Lisp is as old as the

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Daniel Weinreb
Raffael Cavallaro wrote: On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Steve Haflich wrote: My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex. It might be risky to associate lisp with both a dinosaur, and an outdated interpretation of how that dinosaur looked in life Indeed, the

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Andrew Shalit
If we're looking for an animal that's mastered the lambda calculus, clearly we should go with ouroboros. On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Steve Haflich wrote: > Indeed, there is no evidence T. rex ever mastered lambda calculus, but that > wasn't the point. > > To me the similarity between the figu

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Steve Haflich
Indeed, there is no evidence T. rex ever mastered lambda calculus, but that wasn't the point. To me the similarity between the figures was provoking. T. rex in popular culture is considered powerful and formidable. ___ pro mailing list pro@common-lisp.ne

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Attila Lendvai
> My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex.  You hrm, a dinosaur... well, if i think of the general attitude of the CL community... :) --  attila Notice your eroding (digital) freedom, and do something about it! PGP: 2FA1 A9DC 9C1E BA25 A59C  963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A3

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Raffael Cavallaro
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Steve Haflich wrote: > My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex. It might be risky to associate lisp with both a dinosaur, and an outdated interpretation of how that dinosaur looked in life - it's now much more widely believed that the th

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-02-03 Thread Steve Haflich
I'm torn between considering this thread as harmless silliness and ignoring it, and making a serious suggestion. Consistency has never been a priority... My favorite critter to represent has always been the Lambasaurus Rex. You can see a small image of it here http://www.franz.com/~smh/rex.jpg a

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-01-25 Thread Sam Steingold
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Weinreb wrote: > There appears to be a new trend of putting cute > animals on your HTTP 404 page.  Twitter has > a "Fail Whale", and now Tumblr has "TumblBeasts": > > http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/tumblr-adds-oatmeals-suggested-tumbeasts-404-page > > Per

Re: [pro] 404 animals

2011-01-25 Thread Scott McKay
On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Daniel Weinreb wrote: > There appears to be a new trend of putting cute > animals on your HTTP 404 page. Twitter has > a "Fail Whale", and now Tumblr has "TumblBeasts": > > http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/tumblr-adds-oatmeals-suggested-tumbeasts-404-page > > Perh

[pro] 404 animals

2011-01-25 Thread Daniel Weinreb
There appears to be a new trend of putting cute animals on your HTTP 404 page. Twitter has a "Fail Whale", and now Tumblr has "TumblBeasts": http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/tumblr-adds-oatmeals-suggested-tumbeasts-404-page Perhaps we can have an easy way to make Lisp-based web sites use the "p