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J. Clarke[_2_]

In article >,
says...
>
> 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.

The thing is, now "directory" has another meaning, and we can't blame
Microsoft for it, ITU came up with the standard.