I thought this might be of interest to the tutor community.
IDLE gets a new definition (with Guido's approval)... Also he explains why its IDLE and not Idle. The definition has now changed from: Integrated DeveLopment Environment to Integrated Development and Learning Environment Partly to reflect several funky new features being added to help Learners. The top posting(shock!) is by Guido so not my fault! ;-) Alan G -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: IDLE: Integrated Development and Learning Environment? Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:16:42 -0700 From: Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> Reply-To: gu...@python.org To: Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> CC: idle <idle-...@python.org> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.idle References: <560ef3e2.1060...@udel.edu> <cap7+vjl6ibvv6po05--j8-_pqihdfemw-pjyxgwxox_udlx...@mail.gmail.com> <560f0c5f.4030...@udel.edu> I think I was reluctant to name it after a living person. I like the idea of keeping it all caps and changing the interpretation. On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu <mailto:tjre...@udel.edu>> wrote: On 10/2/2015 6:45 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: I like it. Though of course it's really named after Eric Idle. :-) Until a couple of days ago, I was planning to propose changing 'IDLE' to 'Idle', which is what I have writen. I am willing to go with that change instead. But I presumed that you must have preferred the all-caps version, or perhaps not directly naming it after Eric, and then I thought of how to make 'IDLE' an informative acronym rather than a clumbsy semi-acronyn. So now I prefer to change the interpretation than the spelling. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/~guido>)
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