Lambda the Ultimate

An historic announcement by Simon Peyton-Jones:

Now that the logo issue finally has been settled, it is time to select the proper Haskell mascot. As you are no doubt aware, Microsoft's involvement in Haskell means that we have moved from avoiding success at all cost to actively marketing the language, and any language striving for success is entirely dependent on a cute and distinctive mascot. Where would Perl be today without its camel?

Since the recent logo discussion has demonstrated once and for all the
futility of attempting a democratic process in the Haskell community -
to be quite honest, the elected logo looks like an error message from an IBM
mainframe - I have decided to decide on a mascot myself.

So I hereby declare the official Haskell mascot to be the koala, in
the form of the image attached below. Please ensure that this image
accompanies any material published on the web or on paper.

The mentioned image can be viewed here.

Due to recent changes in the community which led to less interest in programming language, and the high quality of design discussions unrelated to programming language semantics, the LtU management team has decided to remove the blog portion of the site, and make LtU into a unmoderated forum about all things related to programming, computing, math, and humor.

The blog will migrate temporarily to the url: www.no-such-thing-as-plt.org, to ease the withdrawal pains of regular readers.

This is a good opportunity to thank all the contributing editors for helping the site survive so long by managing to find actual papers about programming language theory, a field that is rumored not to exist.

Urgent update: This message was an April Fools' Day prank.