--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well said, Steve; > > Different situations require different solutions. Finesse comes > with > applying the best solution for the situation which inconveniences the > fewest people. There was a site in Daito, Japan which had a > warehouse > and an facility where locks were being badly applied. They turned a > multi-user system into a single threaded system by over-using locks. > Unfortunately the politics of the situation made it impossible to > solve > the problem. But they blamed MUMPS for the application code > failures. >
There's a saying about knowing just enough to be dangerous. You and I are saying the same thing, I think. Locks, setting the error trap, and so forth, can be very useful tools when used correctly, but you can misuse them, too, often causing all kinds of problems. === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." --Arthur Schopenhauer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
