Re: Idle 0.10 alpha

[David Given <dg@...>]

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Duck wrote:
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> And, as I said before, Idle is IMO poor choice of name. At first, I
> assumed it was an IDE for Lua based on, or in some way equivalent to,
> Idle for Python.

It's also the name of a query language used by information servers on the web,
although I suspect this use is obsolete:

ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/doc/papers/is/ea/www95.html

In addition, IDL is a common term in this domain (it refers a standardised
method for describing RPC calls) and is probably best avoided in names unless
you're actually doing something similar. It doesn't help that there's also an
unrelated actual programming language called IDL, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDL_%28programming_language%29

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