Hey my French friend. I'd say something cute in French but I don't know any so I'll kindly refrain.
I just wanted to echo what Chris said. There are some sweet functions in 5.5 that really make it easy. I tried running my thread app that I made under 5.5 on 5.0 and got all kinds of problems. Mostly because none of the helper functions I wanted to use are in 5.0. Makes sense right? Anyway, 5.5 is a worthy upgrade. I wanted to make sure you didn't think Mr. Matthews was just making a sales pitch.
Let me know if you want some example code for threading under 5.5. (grant_johnson@leco.com)
Grant
Grant M. Johnson
Project Engineer
LECO Corporation