Screen vs Page vs Card

[Dave Cragg]

At 9:27 am -0500 29/3/04, Marian Petrides wrote:

>I'm not even sure permissively allowing use of 'screen" and "page"
>as alternatives would be a benefit because then you would have
>people on this list using a variety of different terms for the same
>thing--very confusing for the neophyte in particular.  I'm thinking
>of the 5 different synonyms for the same test in blood banking (IAT,
>Indirect Coombs, Indirect Antiglobulin Test, Antibody screen/panel,
>AHG phase) --drives students and new techs nuts.

I go along with this. I'm even uncomfortable with many of the 
alternative shorthand forms such as cd when I see them in other 
people's scripts.

Another reason for not allowing alternatives is that it reduces the 
stock of available terms that might be used for future objects that 
we haven't thought of yet. "sheet" and "drawer" have had to be added 
to the language recently, so who knows when one of the OS developers 
will dream up a "page" or "screen" or even "periscope" object that we 
"must have" in Rev.

Cheers
Dave