Re: Is Text_IO.Put_Line() thread-safe?

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 06/14/2012 01:50 PM, awdorrin wrote:
>
> It is a mess, and if I could re-design the whole thing, I would.
> Unfortunately I'm being told 'make it work' and that since the application
> has been used for 25+ years on the other platforms that there isn't anything
> wrong with the design.

That hardly follows. People use badly designed things all the time. For decades 
the standard design for plumbing was 2 separate faucets (hot and cold) each with 
its own valve. That's a terrible design from a usability standpoint. Then came a 
single faucet with separate valves for hot and cold. That's better, but 
determining the valve positions for a desired combination of water temperature 
and pressure is difficult. A much better design is a single faucet with 
independent controls for temperature and pressure.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"English bed-wetting types."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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