>>>>„I still say directory, never folder“
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>>>Any directory is a folder, while not any folder is a directory. Since the difference was never made clear enough, people are confused. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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>>This is more about the period before 1995, when M$ insisted on directory and didn't want to hear about folders, which they thought was reserved for the underworlds of Macs and Ataris. Well, there's a paragraph about that near the bottom of
this article, to save myself the effort of copying it and pasting here.
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>>There's a better confusion in hungarian, where they translated, officially, a directory as könyvtár, literally a book store/warehouse, i.e. library. Then they went on translating further, came to the item called „library“ and started pulling their hairs. Don't know how that ended.
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>In German this is replied with
Was stört mich mein Geschwätz von Gestern - What do I care about my chitchat from yesterday? , even while Adenauer might used the word Geschwätz in his local dialect and chitchat might not come close. And it must be said, it's half sentence only, it ends with
, if I know better today. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer>
>Also the idea of folder covers more then the 1991 directory. There
is change, isn't it? A folder is simply anything you see in MS File Explorer, like Directory, Printer, My PC etc. A Directory is something out of this, VFP might address.
Yup, things change, even M$ gave up on exploring its windowses or the „microsoft internet“ (though I heard that it worked, sometimes, with other internets as well). I never liked that beast, really, and its reincarnations got gradually worse. Don't even understand how does it explore a file.
But yes, a folder is generally a branch in a hierarchical, tree-like topology - be it emails, branches of a menu (which can be equally well represented by a treeview), even chapters in a book. You may just as well call it a directory, i.e. just as wrongly - the word was used as an analog to a phone directory, which is a simple alphabetical list and doesn't imply any hierarchical structure at all. But then neither does a folder - you never put folders into folders, they're the same size and don't fit. That's typical of early stages of any technology, the language lags behind the invention.
