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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by jollybean on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:27AM (#32287537)
Making things clear is not some kind of 'shiny new thing' that the kids are dancing to - it's rational.

'Backwards Focus Absolutism' means we live in a world of stupid cobwebs and terrible design. The Windows Registry is a hack, it was originally designed to do something mundane and simple. It just grew, like a virus.

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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by dmitriid on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:04PM (#32287836)
> 'Backwards Focus Absolutism' means we live in a world of stupid cobwebs and terrible design

It also means that until ~Windows 7/10 you could run even win3.1-era apps. And you didn't run into situations like "any 32-bit apps no longer work" or "any apps not updated in more than a year will be removed" as we've seen with Apple.

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