This logo was chosen by a vote of the community. Here are the other choices. http://www.haskell.org/logos/poll.html http://www.haskell.org/logos/poll.html Mul

This logo was chosen by a vote of the community. Here are the other choices. http://www.haskell.org/logos/poll.html http://www.haskell.org/logos/poll.html Multiple people came up with this same design independently, because its meaningful: a combination of a lambda and the bind operator, >>=, two of the most fundamental operators in Haskell. Anyway this was months ago. And if you want to point a fail-finger, point it at the guy who chose >>= for the bind operator. "LOL yer operater looks like the train logo!" (And I'm being facetious. That operator is awesome.)