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On 7/17/2014 10:39 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> IDLE (or Idle; Terry
> seems to spell it the latter way, I'm not sure what's the official
> recommendation now),

You found me out ;-). FORTRAN is now Fortran, and I hate typing IDLE, 
and that spelling somehow strikes me as pretentious, so I decided to 
un-officially promote Idle by typing it this way.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy