I like it. Though of course it's really named after Eric Idle. :-) On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> I propose that IDLE be renamed or at least viewed as a acronym for > "Integrated Development and Learning Environment". (See below for > history.) The specific change would be to make the first line of idle.rst > and derivatives read (something like) "IDLE is an Integrated Development > and Learning Environment for Python, writen in Python with the tkinter GUI > package." > > Besides making 'IDLE' a proper acronym, this would better express what > IDLE is meant to be, at least now. A year ago, for instance, we added > 'Turtle Demo' to the IDLE menu for instructional, rather than program > development purposes. > > For another example, Mark and I hope to improve visualization of a program > in action by adding a slowed-down run mode that highlights source lines > (just as in manual mode now). In other words, slideshow-like intelligent > auto-stepping. https://bugs.python.org/issue25146 > To me, this is as much for learning as for development of a specific > program. I think it would work well with Turtle demos and algorithm > visualization demos. > > The old version of README.txt (before the change a couple of days ago) > starts "IDLE is Python's Tkinter-based Integrated DeveLopment > Environment." Note the capital 'L' in 'DeveLopement'. > > help.txt and the derived idle.rst and help.html start "IDLE is the Python > IDE built with the tkinter GUI toolkit. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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