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Re: Sketti is Simmering on the Stove 4/23/2026

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On Wed, 06 May 2026 23:38:22 GMT
dsi1 <user4746@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

> Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com> posted:
> 
> > On 2026-05-05, dsi1 <user4746@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:  
> > >
> > > My father-in-law was a programmer at a low level in the Army. He
> > > was very good at his job. He had the darnedest time understanding
> > > Windows i.e., a high level language.   
> > 
> > Windows is not a language.  Windows is a graphical user interface.
> >   
> 
> You love to use your inflexibility of language to hassle people you
> think are inferior. The reality is that you understood what was being
> said and your nasty nature wouldn't let it pass. Indeed, Windows
> started out as an overlay for MS-DOS. You used to have to load in DOS
> first before Windows. Microsoft then spent a decade or so trying to
> convince people that Windows was a fully integrated OS. I never felt
> that was true but maybe it really is true these days. OTOH, at this
> point, I don't really care if it is or if it isn't just a graphical
> interlay since I try to ignore Widows OS most chance I get. 
> 
> All your blathering doesn't change a thing. My father-in-law had
> trouble with the imprecise nature of the instructions of modern high
> level computer languages.  


The windoze kernel is C language based, and C++ is also used extensively
to architect/customize it.

It's a language in that it responds to established syntax in the same
way a human language conveys data but with variant cultural syntaxes.

Which is to say it is simultaneously as willful as esperanto and as drab
as a dirge, depending on how far one is 'permitted'  to monkey with it.

Lotsa top/down rulz and so on.

Un-Linux like, despite being a forked relative thereof.

Call it he LDS of OS's. 

Heh...

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