[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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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 <***@udel.edu
<mailto:***@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

[Wolf Halton]

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

Wolf Halton
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Post by 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.
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
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.idle
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.
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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