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- Guido van Rossum, as well as being the creator of the Python language, is the
- original creator of IDLE. Other contributors prior to Version 0.8 include
- Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton, Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka.
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- IDLE's recent development has been carried out in the IDLEfork project.
- The objective was to develop a version of IDLE which had an execution
- environment which could be initialized prior to each run of user code.
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- The IDLEfork project was initiated by David Scherer, with some help from Peter
- Schneider-Kamp and Nicholas Riley. David wrote the first version of the RPC
- code and designed a fast turn-around environment for VPython. Guido developed
- the RPC code and Remote Debugger currently integrated in IDLE. Bruce Sherwood
- contributed considerable time testing and suggesting improvements.
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- Besides David and Guido, the main developers who have been active on IDLEfork
- are Stephen M. Gava, who implemented the configuration GUI, the new
- configuration system, and the About dialog, and Kurt B. Kaiser, who completed
- the integration of the RPC and remote debugger, implemented the threaded
- subprocess, and made a number of usability enhancements.
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- Other contributors include Raymond Hettinger, Tony Lownds (Mac integration),
- Neal Norwitz (code check and clean-up), Ronald Oussoren (Mac integration),
- Noam Raphael (Code Context, Call Tips, many other patches), and Chui Tey (RPC
- integration, debugger integration and persistent breakpoints).
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- Scott David Daniels, Tal Einat, Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou,
- Jim Jewett, Martin v. LĂ·wis, Jason Orendorff, Josh Robb, Nigel Rowe,
- Bruce Sherwood, and Jeff Shute have submitted useful patches. Thanks, guys!
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- For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog.
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- Please contact the IDLE maintainer (kbk@shore.net) to have yourself included
- here if you are one of those we missed!
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