IDLE = 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'

[Terry Reedy]

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.

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