<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Wizek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:123.wizek@gmail.com" target="_blank">123.wizek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Although I am not sure a dictatorship would be required -- benevolent or otherwise -- but batteries would certainly be welcome in the standard libraries.</blockquote></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 September 2016 at 02:25, Michael Sloan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mgsloan@gmail.com" target="_blank">mgsloan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A bit of a tangent to a tangential conversation, but I wish that<br>
Haskell could move towards the "batteries included" attitude of<br>
Python's standard library.  That is an example of benevolent<br>
dictatorship / vertical monopoly going very very well.<br></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>That was attempted. Everyone hated it and newcomers are loudly warned to never ever use it.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>                                  <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad        <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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