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

[Wolf Halton]

That is informative. I am glad the acronym is de-kluged. 

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> On Oct 5, 2015, at 2:38 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at 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 <guido at python.org>
> Reply-To:    guido at python.org
> To:    Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
> CC:    idle <idle-dev at python.org>
> Newsgroups:    gmane.comp.python.idle
> References:    <560EF3E2.1060300 at udel.edu>
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> <560F0C5F.4030602 at 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 <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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