Sam H. wrote:
>You don't even have to know how to go
>about fixing silly little problems with your Windows installation in order
>to get an associate's degree in programming and systems analysis. Things
>ought not to be that way.
But why would a programmer care about Windows? Learning your way around the
system (if it's Solaris, Windows, Linux etc.) is the persons problem which
he/she must do on their own. If we had had classes for such, useless,
things at uni. it would:
1. Take a lot of time to cover only a small piece of the majority of
systems (and which should you cover anyway?)
2. Be totaly useless after only a few years, agreed the very basic course
in college (or would it be high school?, I've never completly grasped which
the equivalent it is I've been in here in Sweden) in DOS wasn't hard but
one could question if the majority (most likely only one person besides
myself) of my classmates will ever get any use of it. Not to talk about the
problems with new versions of Windows forcing you to learn the registry,
more or less, over again.
However I agree that the documentation that comes with Windows is very bad
on the registry - and it's my opinion that the registry is the worst part
of Windows. Some people say they are reliefed that they don't have to
change .ini files, but those were much much easier since you knew what they
belonged to (ie. you knew which program you might screw up) thereby making
it easier to restore things afterwards.
Besides, as a programmer I do assume that the computer will work. Of course
finding the reason myself will make my work begin faster and as a total
progress smoother but there's a reason for that help-desk at work. I don't
know everything about Solaris and NT and I doubt I'll ever even attempt to
learn it all.
//Bernie
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