Re: On folders vs. directories and history [was: how to compare...]
Loris Bennett (12023-11-06):
> I beg to differ. I think you are confusing the precise definition of
> something with the label used to refer to it. When the transistor was
> invented, so was a new word to describe it. When this particular
> concept of how to organise data on a computer, about which we are
> talking, was invented, the existing analog term 'directory' was chosen
> (and not, say, 'catalogue'). Because the term already existed, using it
> to refer to something else is by definition metaphorical.
No, that is not what “metaphorical means”. Anyway, I am not interested
in splitting hair about stylistic devices.
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Nicolas George
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