David Abrahams wrote:
Hi,
Last night I hosted a birds-of-a-feather session at the SD Best Practices conferences here in Boston. I was encouraged that, at a conference that only adopted a C++ track this year, we had 15 people there. It was about evenly split between people who were using Boost and those who just came to find out more about it. Those who were using Boost were really enthusiastic.
I was stunned to discover that the rest of them reported that wanted to know what Boost _is_, but that the website doesn't tell them. And when they said that, it hit me like a ton of bricks: they're right!
We really need a section at the top of the page titled "What is Boost?" that covers something like the following:
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I'd like to see some discussion of what's missing (or extra) in the list above... and a volunteer to write the introductory passage :)
How about the following for an introductory passage: The C++ BOOST Libraries are a series of free, peer-reviewed, STL compliant, portable and thread-safe C++ libraries; within the ear-shot of standardization. The libraries themselves reflect unparalleled quality, and are the epitome of modern C++ method, design, idiom & practise; and in so doing, lend themselves to more efficient throughput by virtue of powerful abstractions, whence code that is inherently more maintainable, scalable, and less error prone, hence quality driven. –The Boost Community constitutes professionals across a broad spectrum of industry and specialization; while a number of C++ Boost Library authors and participants include sitting members of the C++ Standards Committee Library Working Group. Cheers, -- Manfred Doudar MetOcean Engineers www.metoceanengineers.com