12 Mar
2009
12 Mar
'09
9:38 p.m.
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". (:-)