John Meacham
People tend to concentrate on the lambda which cooresponds to the functional aspect of haskell when designing logos. Not nearly enough attention is paid to the other striking feature, the laziness. The 'bottom' symbol _|_ should feature prominently. The two most defining features of haskell are that it is purely functional and _|_ inhabits every type. The combination of which is very powerful.
I like the idea, even though personally I don't care that much. I think the phrase "being lazy with class" could be put into the design of a mascot. For Haskell (forgive me for that term) marketing purposes a mascot would definitely help. But I think, despite the well-founded denotational semantics of Haskell, bottom does not play that much of a role. Greets, Ertugrul -- nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex) http://ertes.de/