Re: [boost] Why use Boost?

From: David Maisonave (dmaisonave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-02 16:24:57

"Andy Little" <andy_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> 
> "David Maisonave"  wrote
> 
> > What's the point of creating a great class, if only a handfull of 
> > developers ues it, because the majority have no idea how to use it?
> 
> You cant escape the fact that writing documentation is the most 
> tedious, rotten, boring, miserable, mind-numbing job imaginable ***. 
> Thats why so much documentation is bad or non-existent. Thats why some

> library is "nearly finished"  after even a couple of years "except for

> the documentation", which is going to be started "very soon now"

Personally, to me the hardest part of doing documentation, is getting it
started.
Once I do get it started, the rest is not so painful.

That's why I think it's important to have a really good template that
can give developers a good starting point.
One that can be a fill in the blank type.