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Re: the registry

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On 7/5/2012 9:55 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> writes:
>> Why is it that computer science classes never talk about the
>> registry?  (like the Windows registry)
>
>    They talk about the registry, insofar as they talk about
>    hierarchical databases and more such general concepts, which
>    then apply to specific products such as the registry.
>    Science is more concerned with general concepts and
>    assertions than with specific products of a manufacturer.
>    The registry is treated specifically in some Windows
>    training classes for the general audience.
>

in my run through college, about the closest the classes ever got to 
talking about hierarchical databases was to briefly condemn older 
database systems, and then extoll the virtues of the relational database 
model as the "one true solution to everything".

meanwhile, I personally use a hierarchical database system in my projects.


nevermind an ASM class taught by a guy who had no idea that 
AAA/AAD/AAM/... were effectively deprecated on x86-64, or for that 
matter that x86-64 was originally developed by AMD.

and a C++ class where the teacher apparently had little idea how "new" 
and "delete" worked (making claims that, for example, assigning a NULL 
to a pointer variable did the same thing as using "delete" on it, ...).

(and, ultimately, having it all amount to nothing because I was 
scheduled to move and got screwed over by a stupid math class, and being 
1 math class short of a degree still effectively amounts to nothing).

...


>> Also, is there a registry equivalent on Mac and Linux?
>
>    Not as part of the operating system in Linux as far as
>    I know. I am not sure about the Mac, but I am not aware
>    of a Mac registry.
>
>    This newsgroup is intended for disussions specifically
>    related to programming using programming languages.
>

yep.

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