logo design

[Xah Lee]

recently on #emacs irc of freenode, there's a discussion of a logo of
planet emacsen site.

I made some comments about such logo:

http://paste.lisp.org/display/28901

I have brought this topic here here before... that i think LISP really
need to have a logo. I'm aware of “made with alien technology lispâ€
web-badge, but that is a lisp-peddling badge, not a lisp logo proper.

Python, did not really have a logo. I made a plaint more than once in
different periods of times to comp.lang.python. Them tech geeking
morons and assholes, as expected, made irrelevant and incoherent cries.
But look now, Python now has a logo inargurated around 2005, and is a
well-designed one.

For examples (most top quality) logos, see:
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html
(the lambda logo tour)

http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/freebooks.html
(the unix pestilence)

http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/complang.html
(computer language logos)

Again: the primary purpose of this message, is to beseach that the
power-that-be of lispers, seriously think about getting themselves a
official logo. Thanks.

Xah
(e-mail address removed)
∑ http://xahlee.org/

 

[Frank Buss]

I have brought this topic here here before... that i think LISP really
need to have a logo. I'm aware of ´made with alien technology lisp¡
web-badge, but that is a lisp-peddling badge, not a lisp logo proper.

There are already many different logos, if you don't like the "made with
secret alien technology" text:

http://www.lisperati.com/logo.html
http://www.normal-null.de/lisp_logo.html

 

[Paul McGuire]

....
Again: the primary purpose of this message, is to beseach that the
power-that-be of lispers, seriously think about getting themselves a
official logo. Thanks.


Does the "power-that-be of lispers" spend much time on c.l.py? Even though
Python is mentioned in passing in this post, it really doesn't need to be
cross-posted here.

-- Paul

 

[John Bokma]

Does the "power-that-be of lispers" spend much time on c.l.py? Even
though Python is mentioned in passing in this post, it really doesn't
need to be cross-posted here.

Xah Lee is a well-known spammer, almost all his messages contain at least
one link to his site in the body.

Somehow this time he limited his post to 3 groups instead of the usual 5.
Maybe talking with the right people does work. It did with Dreamhost. And
I am sure his current hosting provider is listening ;-)

 

[Gerard Flanagan]

Xah Lee is a well-known spammer, almost all his messages contain at least
one link to his site in the body.

Somehow this time he limited his post to 3 groups instead of the usual 5.
Maybe talking with the right people does work. It did with Dreamhost. And
I am sure his current hosting provider is listening ;-)

Charybdis...

 

[Xah Lee]

No personal offense intended, but human animal's history is what? 3000
years at least in recorded history? And, all you can think of is what,
the view points of a fraction of your personal life span?

Have you looked into, the history of fashions, icons, their roles and
social significance, before you embarked and embraced on your above-it
attitude about why should or should not your pet language lisp have a
logo?

As per more detailed reasons on the meaning of logos, it's social
significance, its role in modern society, the defining characteristics
of logo design, and why LISP needs a logo, i'll post a reply to this
thread wthin a month.

Xah
(e-mail address removed)
∑ http://xahlee.org/

 

[alex23]

No personal offense intended, but human animal's history is what? 3000
years at least in recorded history? And, all you can think of is what,
the view points of a fraction of your personal life span?

Thank god evolution spat you out to lead us all to the light, huh?

No personal offense intended, but you're a boring, elitist prick.

- alex23

 

[Steve Holden]

Thank god evolution spat you out to lead us all to the light, huh?

No personal offense intended, but you're a boring, elitist prick.

- alex23

This conversation has clearly descended to the level where it needs to
be taken to email. Nobody wants to read this.

regards
Steve

 

[Ken Tilton]

Thank god evolution spat you out to lead us all to the light, huh?

No personal offense intended, but you're a boring, elitist prick.

Actually, no, Xah is pretty cool, give him a chance.

hth, kt

 

[Geoffrey Summerhayes]

Actually, no, Xah is pretty cool, give him a chance.

Yeah, this still seems kind of silly though. Implementations,
companies and user groups have logos, not languages.

Picture this: Hey, I'm switching to COBOL because its new
logo looks great on t-shirts and mugs.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?q?Lars_Rune_N=F8stdal?=]

Picture this: Hey, I'm switching to COBOL because its new
logo looks great on t-shirts and mugs.

Maybe the extra funding would improve "COBOL" and its libraries faster by
letting a developer work more often on it.

I'm not totally serious; but maybe some way of donating money to further
improvement of SBCL/Slime/something-cool-and-universally-needed-here would
be OK or something.

...I need a new t-shirt anyways; the Ubuntu t-shirt has gone missing..

 

[=?iso-8859-1?q?Lars_Rune_N=F8stdal?=]

Maybe the extra funding would improve "COBOL" and its libraries faster by
letting a developer work more often on it.

(and you'd switch to "COBOL" later down the road because of this)