[Idle-dev] IDLE: Integrated Development and Learning Environment?

[Guido van Rossum]

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 <tjreedy at 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
>
>


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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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