Re: [boost] Why use Boost?

John Phillips wrote:

The people looking for a cookbook will want guided tutorials with as close to cut and paste applicability as possible, and the details suppressed.

I wonder if it would be a good idea to write a C++ tutorial that incorporates Boost from the ground up. Teach dynamic memory? Teach smart pointers along with it. And so on. I'm personally convinced that the standard library should be taught as a part of the C++ language itself (i.e. don't even attempt to teach C-style strings until you're through with pointer principles; instead teach std::string), and given the nature of many Boost libraries, this just seems like a natural extension of that principle. Sebastian Redl