[Tutor] Fwd: Re: IDLE: Integrated Development and Learning Environment?

[Alan Gauld]

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

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Subject: 	Re: IDLE: Integrated Development and Learning Environment?
Date: 	Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:16:42 -0700
From: 	Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
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To: 	Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
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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
<mailto: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




-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/~guido>)


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