[Haskell-cafe] Re: New slogan for haskell.org

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, apfelmus wrote:

> gwern wrote:
> > Now, the Main Page on haskell.org is not protected, so I could just edit
> > in one of the better descriptions proposed, but as in my Wikipedia editing,
> > I like to have consensus especially for such visible changes.
>
> Hey, why has the front-page already been changed then? I don't like
> neither this nor the new slogan.

Edit war!!!!!

> In any case: it's not our task to convince others by means of an
> enterprisey formulation, people are free to choose. If they don't want
> it, so be it. We provide data points ("I have written a big but robust
> program, it's called <insert name here>", "We have a FFI and its use is
> explained here", "look, this quicksort function is so beautiful") but
> judgment is what everybody has to do for himself.

Good point.