What does the A stand for in Intellij IDEA?

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Chris Watts picture Chris Watts · Feb 25, 2014 · Viewed 10.5k times · Source

Does anyone know what the acronym IDEA stand for? I would assume Integrated Development Environment, then maybe Application? Also does Intellij stand for anything?

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TheOne_su picture TheOne_su · Jun 12, 2014

Intelli ===> Intelligent

J ===> Java

Idea ===>IDE that is Advanced or Idea just means idea( I have a good idea ...like this ) ...

//The Idea has Double meaning

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