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.
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