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Re:Haskell logo redesign by andreyf on Sunday December 28, 2008 @08:35PM (#412424)
But it has nothing to do with Haskell in particular... to most people, this just means greater than, lambda, equal to. This is doubly confusing, because >= usually means "greater than or equal to".

I agree that simplicity is very important, I like this one best: http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/2/21/Haskell-apankrat.png

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Re:Haskell logo redesign by brl on Sunday December 28, 2008 @08:52PM (#412441)
It's not '>=' it's '>>=' the Haskell monad binding operator.

(I also agree, that logo is pure awesomeness)

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Re:Haskell logo redesign by andreyf on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @12:13AM (#413955)
I know, but most people don't. Your logo can't be designed only for people who know the language.

Most people think >λ= means "greater than" "lambda" "equals", not a clever play on monad binding op and lambda...

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Re:Haskell logo redesign by alxv on Sunday December 28, 2008 @08:57PM (#412446)
Perhaps you are right that for most people the logo is meaningless. However, I find it looks like a fusion of >>= (Haskell's binding operator) and λ (the symbol of functional programming).
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