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by zamadatix 1794 days ago
I think everyone is in agreement it's bad, as I said:

> Most of the actual technical issues you list have more to do with it being extended for the last 30 years in a backwards compatible way than anything to do with it being a hierarchical db instead of a filesystem.

My first line about it being a database was about point 7 in the same link:

> Back to point 1, the Registry is a half-assed, poor quality implementation of a filesystem. Importantly, it’s not a database. It should be a database!

With "not a database" in bold.