From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,534dd301375921ac X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.191.225 with SMTP id hb1mr3827174pbc.5.1339713048445; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni51383pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.glorb.com!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!news.netfront.net!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is Text_IO.Put_Line() thread-safe? Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:17:32 -0700 Organization: Also freenews.netfront.net; news.tornevall.net Message-ID: References: <93201f1a-d668-485e-83b4-492bc283f36e@googlegroups.com> <3fff1269-06f5-47a2-bc10-c2145b3a297d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.20.201.198 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: adenine.netfront.net 1339712256 48713 184.20.201.198 (14 Jun 2012 22:17:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@netfront.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:17:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <3fff1269-06f5-47a2-bc10-c2145b3a297d@googlegroups.com> X-Received-Bytes: 2066 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-06-14T15:17:32-07:00 List-Id: 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 15 --- Posted via news://freenews.netfront.net/ - Complaints to news@netfront.net ---