Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Logo write-in candidate

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:52:49PM +0100, Achim Schneider wrote:

Jon Fairbairn wrote:

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That's where that particular design falls down. >>= is an ugly symbol in the first place, and while the pun with a lambda in the middle provides some intellectual satisfaction, it doesn't outweigh the fussiness of its shape or the irrelevant associations. I hadn't thought of Amtrak, but it made me think of the flags of Mozambique and South Africa.

I had to google for Amtrak, I didn't know they even existed. I did know that Mozambique and South Africa exist, and googling up their flags I discovered that there are as many resemblances to lambda-bind as there are to the Logo to the Deutsche Bank. Amtrak looks wholly different to me: It doesn't even have straight lines, and it's 3d.

Amtrak changed their logo in 2000; the old logo looked like >>=. See the wikipedia article. Amusingly, I also learned from the wikipedia article that critics dubbed this logo the "pointless arrow". =) -Brent