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Thu Nov 29 06:01:07 EST 2018 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-November/155846.html

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:02:29 +1100
Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:14:03PM -0800, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 13:29, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 10:43:04AM -0800, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> > >  
> > > > PyPI makes getting more algorithms easy.  
> > >
> > > Can we please stop over-generalising like this? PyPI makes getting
> > > more algorithms easy for *SOME* people. (Sorry for shouting, but you
> > > just pressed one of my buttons.)  
> > 
> > Is shouting necessary to begin with, though?  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> My apology was a polite fiction, a left over from the old Victorian 
> British "stiff upper lip" attitude that showing emotion in public is Not 
> The Done Thing. I should stop making those faux apologies, it is a bad 
> habit.
> 
> We aren't robots, we're human beings and we shouldn't apologise for 
> showing our emotions. Nothing important ever got done without people 
> having, and showing, strong emotions either for or against it.

+1.  Not that this is very important to discuss, but I don't think
putting a single word in caps is offensive or agressive behavior.
Let's cut people some slack :-)

Regards

Antoine.

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