>Please do not abandon decades of UX tradition in favor of inserting tautologies into your programs.

Not just the File menu, but also MVC is one of many examples of decades-old UX tradition that should not be treated as sacred merely because generations of programmers have copied it.

The irony with MVC is especially rich: people are still cargo-culting terminology from Smalltalk-80 decades after the Smalltalk world itself moved on from that original UI architecture.

"Things seem to hang on in computing just because they work a little bit." -Alan Kay

That was his reply when I asked him about his thoughts on MVC:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8841428

>nobody can agree on what a controller is, anyway, except that it's the dumping ground for all the brittle junk and dependencies that none of the other well defined classes wanted.

https://wiki.c2.com/?WhatsaControllerAnyway