I've unconciously conditioned myself to think about rabbits with nukes each time I think about monads. "Warm fuzzy things" "launching the missiles" indeed. On Friday 13 March 2009 02.38.29 Richard O'Keefe wrote:
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". (:-)
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