On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:19:56 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> Businesses have been storing documents and the like in folders for a couple
> of centuries. Long before any computer owners/builders/programmers have
> been alive. Why change it now?

Because they don't actually fold? Because they are hierarchical ? Because
'directory' was more commonly used at first, why change it ?

Either name doesn't make much sense. All the names I've seen in use
(directory, library, folder, UFD) are existing words retro-fitted to
describe a new concept. If any renaming was called for, using something
sensible like 'container' for folder and 'dataset' for file would
have been better.

-j