>Thanks for sharing my false memories. It means a lot to me.
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>Cynism aside, I really hate it when they switch gears like that, ...

You're not complaining about Foxpro changing a "database" into a "table" when they introduced the database container?

>or when they use the same word (or acronym, for that matter) to mean multiple things. Off the top of my head:
>Key: 1) entry in an index, 2) part of the keyboard
>Cursor: 1) the blinking thingy on a display, 2) CURrent Set Of Records
>Scan: 1) Fox command, 2) digitize a picture using a scanner, 3) use barcode reader 4) a product or operation of (3), 5) a product or operation of (4)
>Programming: 1) what we do for living, 2) what you hear on the radio
>COM: 1) port, 2) object interfacing protocol
>IDE 1) type of disks, 2) programming environment
>GUI 1) visual interface 2) globally unique identifier
>
>Um... forgot to Set Rant On somewhere :).
>

You're far too touchy about homonyms: context! You don't order the data in a table via a button, nor do you press the sort order on the sort-orderboard. You don't look for a dataset (hmmm - M$ Access word for it) on the VDU, nor is the result of your query stored in a blip of light. ... etc.

>>>... bunch of hardcored DOSers would yell at me ...

How d'you pronounce that? In UK a "dosser" is a ne'er-do-well, lazy, feckless. To doss is to flop down on someone's floor for an unspecified period, as in "I wish he'd go; he's been dossing at ours for weeks now, and still hasn't found a job" :-)

BTW a "tosser" is something different - a "jerk-off"