To Begin with the most important point: YES, boost::ITL should be accepted as a boost library. (Please be don't be to disappointed of my english, for i'm a developer from Germany, and this would be my first review on Boost). The ITL (interval template library) is a very valueable part of our (the Cortex Software GmbH, incidently the company i work for) daily development routine. In our industry (which is health care) sampling of Status-Informations for collections of evaluations (in time) are an essential part of our work, so we are using the ITL-Library for some years with great success. (We have to aggregate Events based on equivalent properties, eg. same admission - which diagnosis, same discharge - which diagnosis, and so on. ) . As far as I know, there is really no alternative for using the ITL do work with Intervals - I've tried is with plain SQL, and, belive me: It's possible - but really no fun - no,no,no. (I've also seen Experiments trying to implement the ITL-Solution for specific problem-domains - they aren't usefull or elegant, either. Forget them.) Until now, we only used the library for intervals of datetimes (coded as integers), but i Im sure, that its usefullness goes far beyond. Concerning the overall architecture, I think, the actual version is more than complete, I'm especially impressed withn the idea of big, sparse bitsets implmenented by the ITL - it's cool. The documentation (using samples) is clear and completly comprehensive - couldn't hope for more. So, being not a specialist in template/generics programming (or in algebraic specification), I LIKE this Library - and use it.
Hi PW, nice to meet you on the boost list =) Thank you for sharing your long time experience with interval containers of the ITL Cheers, Joachim 2010/2/26 Wuttke Peter <wuttke.peter@googlemail.com>
To Begin with the most important point: YES, boost::ITL should be accepted as a boost library.
(Please be don't be to disappointed of my english, for i'm a developer from Germany, and this would be my first review on Boost).
The ITL (interval template library) is a very valueable part of our (the Cortex Software GmbH, incidently the company i work for) daily development routine.
In our industry (which is health care) sampling of Status-Informations for collections of evaluations (in time) are an essential part of our work, so we are using the ITL-Library for some years with great success. (We have to aggregate Events based on equivalent properties, eg. same admission - which diagnosis, same discharge - which diagnosis, and so on. ) .
As far as I know, there is really no alternative for using the ITL do work with Intervals - I've tried is with plain SQL, and, belive me: It's possible - but really no fun - no,no,no. (I've also seen Experiments trying to implement the ITL-Solution for specific problem-domains - they aren't usefull or elegant, either. Forget them.)
Until now, we only used the library for intervals of datetimes (coded as integers), but i Im sure, that its usefullness goes far beyond.
Concerning the overall architecture, I think, the actual version is more than complete, I'm especially impressed withn the idea of big, sparse bitsets implmenented by the ITL - it's cool.
The documentation (using samples) is clear and completly comprehensive - couldn't hope for more.
So, being not a specialist in template/generics programming (or in algebraic specification), I LIKE this Library - and use it. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
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