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 <tjre...@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 > > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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