Sounds good to me :) On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> 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) > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > > -- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. - Abraham Maslow
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