Walter Bright wrote:
Don wrote:
(My pet hate is the way Windows copied the 'folder' idea from the Mac
as an analogy for a directory structure,
I agree. It is especially annoying when trying to help someone with
their Windows box, and you say "go to this directory" and they say
"what's a directory"?
And manilla folders aren't even nestable! A manilla folder is a simple
container for storing pieces of paper. I find it mind-boggling that so
many people thought it was a good analogy for a tree structure.
I learned this lesson long ago when writing technical documentation. To
confuse people, keep changing the name of the contents of an array.
Switch randomly between "elements", "members", "items", etc. They'll
never get comfortable with it.
Applies to APIs, too.
