[Haskell-cafe] Re: Sugestion for a Haskell mascot

Joe Fredette writes:

Hehe, I love it. Sloth is a synonym for Lazyness in English too, and they're so freaking cute... :)

I wouldn't say it was an exact synonym. Though the dictionary definitions are similar, sloth has a more negative connotation than laziness; the fourth deadly sin is called "sloth" rather than "laziness". I think using it as a mascot is a bad idea: "Haskell is so slow, they even chose a sloth as the mascot". -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk http://www.chaos.org.uk/~jf/Stuff-I-dont-want.html (updated 2009-01-31)