On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Paul Johnson <paul@cogito.org.uk> wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
A call has gone out <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-December/051836.html> for a new logo for Haskell.  Candidates (including a couple <http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Haskell-logo-revolution.png> of mine <http://www.haskell.org/sitewiki/images/f/fd/Ouroborous-oval.png>) are accumulating here <http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_logos/New_logo_ideas>.  There has also been a long thread on the Haskell Cafe mailing list.

So what's happening about this?

I know I'm late to the party, but here's an observation anyway.  It might be better to settle on an emblem first, and then a logo.  Lambda is popular for functional languages, but it's not a distinctive feature of Haskell.  What is distinctive of Haskell is category theory in general and the monad in particular.  Both of which are strongly reminiscent of Alchemy.  Believe it or not, it's possible to see the operations of the monad as the exact analog of certain aspects of Alchemy (I'm working on a detailed exposition.)

  Monad as Philosopher's Stone?  Galleries of Alchemical emblems and symbols are easily found on the web; see for example the symbol for composition at  http://www.iridius.info/current/info/

-gregg