9 Mar
2009
9 Mar
'09
8:49 p.m.
Maurício wrote:
Here in Brazil we have a forest animal we name 'preguiça' -- literally, lazyness. What better mascot we could have for Haskell? It lives (and sleeps) in trees, and if you see the main picture in wikipedia articles you can easily imagine the tree branch beeing replaced by a lambda:
The article says: "Sloths therefore have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves." Clearly a reference to the evil mangler. Anton