[boost] Re: What I Hate About How We Abstract System Dependence

From: Tony Juricic (tonygeek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-06 23:10:22

Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> Over the past few years, the style of our abstract interfaces for
> system-dependent features has bothered me more and more. 
 > [cut]

Since thread library was the first boost library that I tried to use, 
right after I "discovered" boost++, I can not agree with you more. My 
take on it is that people simply don't use it. IMO, current thread 
library is an old, in those times politically correct, hommage to Java 
thread classes but in C++.

Some past discussion regarding IMO useless thread-specific ptr indicated 
to me that people involved with threads are either doing something with 
threads that is way past my capabilities to understand, or that they are 
simply playing 'syntactic games' since they don't really use threads 
except maybe to construe material for magazine aricles and useless 
trivial examples.

Tony