My dreams, they will be forever haunted.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/1 Maarten Hazewinkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maarten.hazewinkel@gmail.com">maarten.hazewinkel@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">That's not you usual Koala face.<br>Must be a special Simon^H^H^H^H^HHaskell-Koala species.<br><br><br>
<br>On 1 Apr 2009, at 10:07, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Dear Haskell enthusiasts,<br><br>Now that the logo issue finally has been settled, it is time to select<br>
the proper Haskell mascot. As you are no doubt aware, Microsoft's<br>involvement in Haskell means that we have moved from avoiding success<br>at all cost to actively marketing the language, and any language<br>striving for success is entirely dependent on a cute and distinctive<br>
mascot. Where would Perl be today without its camel?<br><br>Since the recent logo discussion has demonstrated once and for all the<br>futility of attempting a democratic process in the Haskell community -<br>to be quite honest, the elected logo looks like an error message from an IBM<br>
mainframe - I have decided to decide on a mascot myself.<br><br>So I hereby declare the official Haskell mascot to be the koala, in<br>the form of the image attached below. Please ensure that this image<br>accompanies any material published on the web or on paper.<br>
<br>Simon<br><br><haskell-mascot.jpg>_______________________________________________<br>Haskell mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Haskell@haskell.org" target="_blank">Haskell@haskell.org</a><br><a href="http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell" target="_blank">http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell</a><br>
</blockquote><br><br>Maarten Hazewinkel<br><a href="mailto:maarten.hazewinkel@gmail.com" target="_blank">maarten.hazewinkel@gmail.com</a><br>Tel: 06-53 692 432 (+31-653 692 432 from outside the Netherlands)<br><br><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>/jve<br>