On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 09:05 -0700, Robert Ramey wrote:

My experience in this regard is surprising to me.

I'm amazed to discover that in only ONE single case have any of the programmers, managers, etc ever even heard of boost. This group even includes an ex head of the computer science department at a top tier university !!!

Sadly this is what I would expect. However, I have been surprised by the number of companies in London ( U.K. ) That have heard of boost. Mostly in the International banking sector. The most popular library by far has to be smart_ptrs.

When I first came upon boost, I was agog at the possibilities it opened up. The utiliy and power of the whole was blindingly obvious to to me. As I get older, I feel more and more disconnected from the rest of to programming world.

I know what you mean. Many programmers are still stuck at the C++ is a better C stage and very few over here seem to understand or use design patterns :-(. /ikh