On 11/28/2010 04:18 PM, Bronek Kozicki wrote:
Are you familiar with this explanation why recursive mutexes are not actually helping to write better programs http://groups.google.com/group/comp.programming.threads/msg/d835f2f6ef8aed99...
No, I had not seen that. It's an interesting post, thanks for linking it. The author may be correct in everything he writes, but it's certainly not the only point-of-view. One could find examples to support any point-of-view, which is not to say that I think all points-of-view are equally valid. What is clear, however, is that this subject has a big potential for ideological disagreements. Which is why I tried to be very limited in what I wrote. For example, I specifically did not claim that "recursive mutexes help you write better programs". Instead, I was careful to write:
Not saying this is a superior model in every way, just that it's what I grew up with.
:-) -Marsh