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Form vs. Screen

Tue Oct 5 16:34:00 UTC+1100 2004

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It's a shame that windows programmers call the high level windows 'forms'.

I wish they had called them 'screens' or something more heavily associated with UI.

Because the word 'form' is so useful in modeling business documents.

It's a shame that I have to call my Client Screen a Client Form and then pick a weird name like Client Card or Client Register to describe a Client Form.

Oh, did I say Client..? I meant Customer.. there we go again with words that have many meanings.

I use the word 'client' to refer to the software application that connects to a 'server'. But I also use the word 'client' to refer to the 'customers' that I manage.

Picking good names for things is hard. All the good names are taken!

John.


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