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@mods: thread split would be welcome - yet another windows holy war hardly qualifies as required knowledge for newcomers.

LOL! Sorry, but comparing .NET technology with plain ascii files is like comparing the Hubble with my D=114mm F=1000mm newtonian

If it where that bad, there won't be mono on *nix

thread split would be welcome - yet another windows holy war hardly qualifies as required knowledge for newcomers.

lol, Ok being new myself I actually think it would be an idea to include links here that start of at OS dev beggings with some theory all the way through to bootloader and putting in c and many other things

I realise the wikis for that and I actually have found links thanks to people on here, really great reading but If you had a list of links here , one being the wiki and lots of others such as learning assembly, learning c, the boot process, fat12 filesystem, hard drive CHS, etc basically so someone whos new could just come to the forum and get reading straight away and at least then when they ask questions they are going to have a reasonable set of foundation knowledge.

This is a great site and from the limited amount Ive seen so far the info is out there but having sets of links in this opne thread may minimise general questions like "hELP ME WRITE AN OS"

Just an idea , its a hard balane though I guess as you dont want people frightened to ask things )

thread split would be welcome - yet another windows holy war hardly qualifies as required knowledge for newcomers.

Would it be possible to lock this thread? I'm pretty sure most of the important information was covered in the first couple of posts.

That, or could this thread be moderated (delete any posts that don't have anything to do with the topic)?

Sorry to start a flame war, but as with brendan, I think there is problems with both platforms. but I don't like when misinformed people give incorrect statements.

Colonel Kernel wrote:

Alboin wrote:But it's so similar. The only difference is that it passes objects. That's why I called it syntactic sugar.

Ok, let me spell it out for you. Let's say you write a *nix command (program or script) that dumps out a table of information in comma-separated values. I'll use a really dumb example: firstname,lastname,phonenumber. If you want to write another *nix command that processes that table of information somehow. Your new command will have to do text parsing. The data is unstructured -- it has no schema. Yes it is flexible, but parsing is a pain in the butt.

Ok, awk can do that (also information can be formated into ascii, which means that awk can read the thing), and as such can perform operations on structured data.

Now Microsoft has used marketing to manipulate you into thinking that PowerShell has more power than anything thats out there. It's the same as My Space sound like you have your own personal web space.

B.E wrote:Now Microsoft has used marketing to manipulate you into thinking that PowerShell has more power than anything thats out there. It's the same as My Space sound like you have your own personal web space.

Microsoft must have been working on some sort of propaganda when they named Microsoft Works.

B.E wrote:Sorry to start a flame war, but as with brendan, I think there is problems with both platforms. but I don't like when misinformed people give incorrect statements.

Neither do I.

Now Microsoft has used marketing to manipulate you into thinking that PowerShell has more power than anything thats out there.

That's just asinine. I never said Powershell was better than anything else, just that it passes freakin' objects instead of text! So you're not only a thread necromancer, but you're also wrong -- about my opinion of MS, and about the original technical disagreement, which I barely even remember...

Lock this thread already!

dengll23 wrote:My English is not very good, but I will study hard !

PS: This is my first reply

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Well ,
This is my personal opinion . Instead of abusing a new comer .... we always have the option of not posting a reply .... I think instead of calling somebody dumb in a post .. I think its far easier not to make a comment ... Another point i want to stress out it is ... If someone did'nt give the required answer to your question ... It's rude to make remarks like "Your reply was useless " ... Finally Give Respect and Take Respect .. As a developer it is always better to listen to other people ... If you are self important beast -- I think its very difficult to make progress .. I myself learnt a lot about OS - Developing by reading other people's source code and hacking them ....