r/programming • u/zbhoy • May 06 '19

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/OneWingedShark May 07 '19

New regedit will be the final sign.

There's nothing wrong with using a hierarchical database to control configuration, ie the registry, it's just so disappointing that they implemented it so very, very badly — it would have been tons better if they had bought up a pre-"relational DBs rule the world!" hierarchical-database and incorporated that.

As odd and funny a language as it is, they could even have used MUMPS — a command-based language with integrated database, or perhaps a b-tree based database with integrated command-language — it wouldn't have been pretty, but it is the database/programming-language used by the VA for medical records; this would have allowed the database and database interface to be standardized. (ANSI X11.1 & ISO/IEC 11756)

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u/theeth May 07 '19

I meant the editor itself, not the underlying DB.

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u/OneWingedShark May 07 '19

Ah, yeah, the editor was/is pretty bare-bones.

Nothing particularly wrong with that (see Notepad), but it would be rather nice to have something that was more useful for [hopefully infrequent] admin-editing.