On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:05:32AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:29:55AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > [1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is
> > beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they?
>
> It's a Microsoft Windows thing. Windows presents directories and
> files graphically, and the icon for a directory is a picture of a manila
> folder. Then to make matters worse, they use the word "folder" in
> their menus and so on ("New Folder").
Thanks. Perhaps I should have marked that thing as somewhat... ironical.
For me, this desktop metaphor is somewhat condescending and conveys
"users are too stupid to digest an abstraction, so we give them
unicorns and rainbows"). That's why I sometimes develop a rash when
exposed to folders ;-)
(Thanks for the reminder on directories: I've "the Bach" on my bookshelf,
so that brings memories; note that Git directories look pretty similar,
but they carry fingerprints instead of inodes. Old is new again :-)
Cheers
- t
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