Re: [boost] Why use Boost?

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-03 19:34:20

John Phillips wrote:

>The people looking for a cookbook will want guided tutorials with as 
>close to cut and paste applicability as possible, and the details 
>suppressed.
>  
>
I wonder if it would be a good idea to write a C++ tutorial that 
incorporates Boost from the ground up. Teach dynamic memory? Teach smart 
pointers along with it. And so on. I'm personally convinced that the 
standard library should be taught as a part of the C++ language itself 
(i.e. don't even attempt to teach C-style strings until you're through 
with pointer principles; instead teach std::string), and given the 
nature of many Boost libraries, this just seems like a natural extension 
of that principle.

Sebastian Redl