"we've had 25 years of fourth generation languages (4GLs) each trying to do things in radically different ways to improve productivity, and none have stayed around - they always have the same problem, easy things are very quick to do, but as soon as you stray from the easy end, the 4GL becomes a hindrance rather than a help."
"if you are doing something a lot - and several hundred servers running almost continuously in an enterprise project would be spot on in the list of things that do stuff a LOT - then very unlikely incidents stop being very unlikely and instead become things that happen on an infrequent but regular basis."
"You can release a semaphore from a thread that has not acquired it. This is quite different to locks, where only the thread that acquired the lock can release it."
