[Tutor] Fwd: Re: IDLE: Integrated Development and Learning Environment?
Wolf Halton
wolf.halton at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 04:20:08 CEST 2015
That is informative. I am glad the acronym is de-kluged.
Wolf Halton
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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>
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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.
>
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> Terry Jan Reedy
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> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/~guido>)
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