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From: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What are menus?
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Message-ID: <1472@zen.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 09:55:35 GMT
References: <3234@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <3234@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Well, I asked "what in the real world are pull-down menus a metaphor for?".
>[...]
>The desktop metaphor is just an analogy. Don't take it too seriously.

Huh? [:-)]  Metaphors, by definition, have to be a metaphor *for* something.
Similarly with analogies (it has to be an analogy *of* something).  The
desktop metaphor sure isn't a true representation of any desktop I've seen,
but then it does seem more useful the way it is.

Maybe it should be the "desktop" metaphor.
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