On 12/28/2016 9:28 PM, Puckdropper wrote:
Jack wrote in news

WINS scripting language (Power Shell) is a diabolical piece of crap,
designed by the morons of the computing world. OS/2 had REXX for it's
scripts which was powerful, yet any moron could learn it.

It's worth the time to install Perl or something. I tried Power Shell,
it was a bigger piece of junk than batch files, and doing intelligent
things with batch files is pretty awful.

Well DOS batch were/are real crap, perfect example of Gate's stupidity.
UNIX Bourne, bash, cshell etc batch programing, combined with AWK,
GAWK SED was/is sweet and unlike DOS crap, can do most anything. REXX
is even better and super easy to learn and use.


OS/2 used standard config files anyone could master. Win uses the
convoluted piece of garbage called the registry. Anyone that has the
balls to fool around with that mess knows the meaning of labyrinth.
It must have been designed by the same fools that created the almost
unlearnable Power Shell script language.

The fellow who created the registry had one thing to say about it:
I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,
snip

Yeah, well that hasn't helped anyone feel better about it.

There's a few good things the registry is good at, but it's such a mine
field I don't know what that thing hasn't been replaced yet. The
problem was a configuration file would take 4K on disk because of a 4K
sector size, but only had 16 bytes. It's no big deal now, we've got
tons of 4K sectors but that kind of waste is why modern systems run so
slowly compared to their late-90's counterparts.

Personally, I think millions of new computers have been sold because the
registry became totally F***ed up and people just went out and bought a
new computer.

Like I said, Windows used to be really really good. Windows 7 is
fantastic in terms of UI, it's set the standard for many UIs and then
Microsoft screwed everything up completely.

Like I said, OS/2 was the only "windows" that actually worked. It worked
perfect, really, really, really a lot better than any version of
windows. XP, 7 and 10 are OK, but they are still far behind OS/2 in
most everything, including stability and ease of use. Take a look at
your start up files in Services and see what a convoluted mess win is.
It's a wonder this crap even works at all.

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Jack
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