Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> The Windows registry is "a maze of twisty little passages, all
> alike" <G>
ITYM "a maze of twisty little passeges,
{058C1536-2201-11D2-BFC1-00805F858323}"
> The registry a cryptic, bloated, system by which M$ can hide
> details about anything they want... Instead of having separate .INI
> files scattered about.
A registry, in general, is a decent idea. It's more robust and more
permanent than environment variables, and the centralization is better
than INI files scattered about (probably). The problem is that the
Windows Registry has passed beyond all mortal ken, probably sometime
around when they started indexing things by GUID, losing any hierarchy
based on application.
That, and the file format definitely isn't robust to bit-rot that
happened too often on FAT16/32 filesystems.
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