Re: [boost] [web site] Marketing - another try

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-07 10:00:33

"Jonathan Turkanis" <technews_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:dahho5$i74$1_at_sea.gmane.org...
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone who responded to the "Marketing?" thread!
>
>> and http://www.esva.net/~beman/boost-home/more/background.html
>>
>> Comments? Is this heading in the right direction?
>
> I have just a couple of comments:
>
> - "less program bugs" should be "fewer program bugs," or just "fewer bugs"

Fixed.

> - using boost doesn't eliminate reinvention of the wheel, it just reduces 
> it; at
> least, that is, until boost contains libraries for doing everything that 
> someone
> else has already implemented ;-)

Fixed.

> - The quote from Stroustrup has too many ellipses for my tastel; it 
> reminds me
> of a movie advertisement that quotes some critic as saying "... A 
> spectacular
> .... success" or "Two ... thumbs ... up ... !"

Agreed. I've lengthened the quote a bit to eliminate all except the last 
ellipse.

Thanks for the help,

--Beman