<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 17 Dec 2008, at 09:26, Luke Palmer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Thomas Davie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom.davie@gmail.com">tom.davie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> On 16 Dec 2008, at 18:40, Darrin Thompson wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ---- ----<br> \ \ \ \ ------------<br> \ \ \ \ \ |<br> \ \ \ \ -----------<br> \ \ \ \<br> / / / \ --------<br> / / / \ \ |<br> / / / /\ \ -------<br> / / / / \ \<br> ---- ---- ----<br> </blockquote> <br> Oh please no, please don't let the logo be something that says "Haskell, it's all about monads".</blockquote><div><br>But it's a very pretty logo. And the idea of "computation abstractions", Applicatives and Monads in particular, are a pretty big part of Haskell as a language and as a culture. Haskell, it's not exactly <i>not</i> about monads.</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>No, I agree, but there's already a large body of literature that implies that Haskell is pretty much only about monads, and I'd hate to see the logo go the same way. Though I do take your point about abstractions being a major part of the language.</div><div><br></div><div>Bob</div></body></html>