Thanks John. Nice words. I have taken far more from boost than I have given. Let me just summarize my views by saying that I think that boost is at a turning point. I hear lots and lots of grumbling. Most of it is a general frustration and angst about the future. With microsoft's .Net, apples osx, and Java, C/C++ is no longer the top dog. C/C++ is just one of many different approaches to software development. Its not like it used to be. I see boost as our last great hope. Granted boost is very C++ centric. It is my mission to make boost more friendly to C projects. Why do we fight. Why are C programmers so generrally frustrated with C++ programmers. I can help there, if anyone is interested to listen. I would hope that C++ programmers would just hear us out. Make a few concessions, where its not too painful. I guess, what I see is that we C/C++ developers should get together. There is so much that we could do if we fought for each other. We argue because there is a friendly comptition between the languages, but if we were smart, we would realize that our real compition is elsewhere and we are far better off joining forces, so to speak.
Jon
Jon,
I think you are being unfair here. Tom has put several years of hard work into Boost, including preceding me as a Review Wizard, where he served for a few years, and managing a few reviews. I honestly believe that he is trying to start a discussion that he hopes will help Boost.
That is not the same thing as saying I agree with him. I wrote an over long post elsewhere in this thread expanding on one point where I disagree. In general, I am much more tolerant of both templates and the use of the preprocessor than Tom is. I think that is an honest difference of stylistic opinion between us, and is in no way trolling.
It may be uncommon in current US society, but I find it quite easy to strongly disagree with someone on some topic that is important to me, but still like and respect that person.
John
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