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Re: IDLE = 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'

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  Re: IDLE = 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment' Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-10-03 14:02 +1000

#97362 — Re: IDLE = 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> Today, we agreed on the idle-dev list (Guido included) that 'IDLE' should be
> interpreted as 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment' rather than
> as 'Integrated DeveLopment Environment' (note the 'L' in 'DeveLopment').
> The new long form better reflects the current practice and goal of IDLE
> development.  For instance, a menu entry to run turtledemo was added a year
> ago to help learning, rather than development.  Of course, 'IDLE' remains an
> intentional reference to Eric Idle of Monty Python.

Oh, I thought it was already called that. Definitely prefer the
four-word expansion to the middle-of-word version.

ChrisA

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