<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks for the graceful reply! So as not to think I'm singling anyone out, I should say the "hatchet job" comment above is also the kind of thing very few of us want to be part of our day-to-day conversation.<br><br></div>Everyone makes mistakes, not a big thing! It's just important that, on average, when people come visit our corner of the internet the thing they see isn't people saying hurtful things to each other. When I started here I felt like I could ask a question and not be ridiculed for it. Others should have the same feeling when they come by.<br><br></div><div>Thanks!<br></div>Tom<br><br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:24 PM, 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">Fair point, my mistake, sorry. I will try to tone it down and be a<br>
more civil communicator. To me equating the Haskell Platform with<br>
python's batteries included approach is laughable, so I laughed.<br>
<br>
I find Brandon's opinions on things to often be diametrically opposed<br>
to my own, and this seems to be a cause of a great deal of contention.<br>
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-Michael<br>
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Tom Murphy <<a href="mailto:amindfv@gmail.com">amindfv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Michael Sloan <<a href="mailto:mgsloan@gmail.com">mgsloan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> LOL! Oh man, this guy must be pulling my leg... Haskell platform was<br>
>> never a batteries included plan. It was a plan for package<br>
>> bureaucracy, mixed in with a broken installation approach. Sorry, but<br>
>> that was not a good enough attempt at emulating python's "batteries<br>
>> included" . From <a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0206/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.python.org/dev/<wbr>peps/pep-0206/</a><br>
>><br>
><br>
> The substance of your positions on packaging/HP aside, it has been 15 hours<br>
> since SPJ's email about having more respectful discussion in our community.<br>
> Please speak with civility.<br>
><br>
> Tom<br>
><br>
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