21 Oct
2010
21 Oct
'10
7:48 p.m.
I had occasion to look into the thread documentation after many years. It was in the course of explaining the benefits of using boost libraries to a programmer who was unfamiliar with them. Somehow I remember the old documentation as being much more helpful. I think I remember tutorials and a faq explaining things why semaphores weren't inlcuded etc. I remember finding this to be very helpful. My original interest in boost was sparked by reading this documentation. The current system seems more complete and the documention more formal and correct. But it needs tutorials which explain how to use the library to solve problems and to explain the examples. It also needs a section to explain the design decisions. Robert Ramey