Thanks for the comment.
If the problem they have is that they neeed some sort of parser, telling them to start with boost::timer is just wasting their time. Yes. I agree, and that's not my point.
By the time people get here, they have already decided they want to use a particular library (or libraries), and just want to know how to get past all the tedium of getting the libraries and includes in the right place. (Remember this was the point of the original "Hello World" - it's a trivial program, but getting it to compile and execute is/was non-trivial.) I understand your point. But is this the document for people who "already" decided to use boost? No. I dont think so.
The quality of this crucial document shapes our users' first experiences with Boost, and for many, determines whether they use Boost or give up in frustration. It means that this document is not for those who have already decided to use boost, but for
David Abraham said at the first post as follows; those who wants to know what boost is, or what boost can do, to decide whether they use boost or not. So it is not tirvial to show what kind of modules do boost have, and what kind of functions boost have. From my personal experience, whenever I found some C++ libraries that seems useful, I first read "getting started" or else document to see what can be done. Not how to compile build, etc. And current boost web site do not have this kind pointers like what I said in the last e-mail.
for C++ beginners, try shared_ptr, boost::timer, etc for those interested in functional programming, see function, bind.... for those interested in numerical programming, see random, uBLAS and so on and on.
Hope this help. -- Satoshi Fujimoto <fujim@be.to>