Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries
From: Jonathan Franklin (franklin.jonathan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-24 21:22:28

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:54 PM, John Phillips
<phillips_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  I think you are being unfair here. Tom has put several years of hard work
> into Boost, including preceding me as a Review Wizard, where he served for a
> few years, and managing a few reviews. I honestly believe that he is trying
> to start a discussion that he hopes will help Boost.

I am aware of Tom's contributions to boost.  However, his claims that
C++ is useless to graphics programming, people who learn C first are
better programmers, etc. are:
1. Entirely opinion.
2. Entirely off topic for this list.
3. Incite impassioned responses from the otherwise smart and
well-meaning members of this list.

This is classic troll bait, and has no place in this forum.

> It may be uncommon in current US society, but I find it quite easy to
> strongly disagree with someone on some topic that is important to me, but
> still like and respect that person.

Please note that in claiming that these statements are troll bait, I
have not made any insinuation of dislike or disrespect towards Tom.  I
believe the record will show that I never actually called anyone a
troll.  I simply pointed out the "baited" statements, and encouraged
people to get back on topic.  I chose not to engage in any of the
inflammatory off-topic debate simply because I feel that it is the
best way to get back on topic.

I encourage everyone to (re-)read the following, and try to keep
future discussion useful to boost:
http://www.boost.org/community/policy.html

Jon