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

[Sean Felipe Wolfe]

Sounds good to me :)

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> 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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