That is informative. I am glad the acronym is de-kluged. Wolf Halton Atlanta Cloud Technology Business Continuity Solutions 678-687-6104 -- Sent from my iPhone. Creative word completion courtesy of Apple, Inc.
> On Oct 5, 2015, at 2:38 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > 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>) > > > <Attached Message Part> > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
