Re: Terminology

[Lloyd Wood <l wood eim surrey ac uk>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, colin z robertson wrote:

> I'm not so sure of this, because as I see it there is only one problem
> with "directory", which is that it is not consistent with Windows.
> Bear in mind that hackers tend to be rather stubborn people and that
> many of them wouldn't touch Windows with a barge pole, let alone
> change their terminology to be compliant with it.
> 
> If there were some inherent usability advantage to the term "folder" I
> don't think you'd have much trouble convincing people

'folder' is shorter, easier to spell, easier to type, easier to show
as a visual icon, and a lot more meaningful as a metaphor in terms of
its dictionary definition and etymology. (Unless, of course, you
think using Latin terms is good.)

Nice to see how quickly this gui discussion has devolved to an
argument over literal semantics.

L.

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