Satoshi Fujimoto <fujim@be.to> writes:
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's not about what you have wrote, but about what you did not write. So its just a suggestion.
If this document is for the boost begginers, isn't is good to show which library is 'easy' to start? I know it is a bit controversial subject, but it is almost clear that, at least for C++ beginners (and maybe for most of the 'ordinary' C++ programmers) libraries like MPL or spirit is difficult. While libraries like boost:timer and shared_ptr is easy to use.
So my suggestion is to make some section like "where to start?" and make some pointers like....
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.
Such material might be a great idea, but I think it is outside the scope of this particular document. There ought to be a "what next?" document, but that's a separate thing. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com