On 1/26/11 12:37 PM, rantingrick wrote: > On Jan 26, 2:07 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote: > >> And some people have absolutely no need-- no need at all-- for any sort >> of GUI programming at all. This group is actually really, really big. > > Stephen "Strawman" Hansen: If he only had a brain! :-) > > That is the most obvious straw-man to date in this thread. What about > the large portion of folks who don't use all the datatypes (queue, > weakref, etc) or how about numeric and math modules (fractions, > decimal, etc) or how about data persistence, or Cryptograhic, or > curses! or, multimedia services, or, or. > > You see NOT everyone uses everything in the stdlib and most use much > less than half. However we would be fools to claim "batteries > included" and NOT support GUI!
As usual, you selectively quote and completely miss the point. Hint: the quoted portion was not an argument for or against inclusion of anything. The funny thing is, by selectively quoting the phrase and using it to imply that I was making a straw-man argument against inclusion with that statement -- which, point of fact, I was not -- you are yourself, making a straw-man argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man "To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position." I can't decide if you're just ignorant or if you're an artful troll with a sense of irony and did it on purpose. -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/
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