Whatever you might think threading isn't easy, I don't think our brain can really understand it just because using multiple threads takes away the logic of the sequence. You don't know and aren't going to know when your new thread is going to execute. You are at the mercy of the OS. So that is one thing to take into account. But on the other hand threading is awesome. It can solve performance problems without to much coding and in these days of multiple cores it's bound to help. But try to refrain yourself from using them as much as possible they are (or should be) a last resort. Debugging ...

Today I was trying to print a bunch of reports. The reports were supposed to come out in order because the are numbered.

You can do this in one report I hear you say… no because I use an old version of a reporting engine and that engine doesn’t really support multipage reports very well. You see I need to print a dutch version on one side and the french version on the other side. I could do this by printing all the dutch first and then feeding them back in and printing the french side, but dutch and french version need to have the same number obviously. Not so obvious i...