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quirkottoday at 7:00 PM1 replyview on HN

It's a real Chesterton's fence situation. There's a lot of latent information contained in a tradition of calling the first menu item "File" including expectations around what can be found there.

You could also say it pierced the metaphor and no longer refers to files on a computer, but to the concept of filing that computer files were named after.


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actionfromafartoday at 7:02 PM

Pierced the metaphor - elegant.