Re: [Boost-users] Getting started with Boost: what did you need to know?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-01 21:01:44

Rush Manbert <rush_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Rush Manbert <rush_at_[hidden]> writes:
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>>>Other than that, the only thing you might add are testimonials on
>>>the home page. 
>> 
>> 
>> You're suggesting that I put the testimonials in my talk, or just that
>> we add more testimonials to the home page?
>> 
>
> Sorry, home page, not talk.
>
>> 
>>>Everything I have used (and it's a whole lot more
>>>than the filesystem library by now) just works. My experience with
>>>other open source code has not been so seamless and easy, so I
>>>really appreciate this about Boost, and I thank all those who have
>>>contributed to it.
>> 
>> 
>> Can we use that one?  :)
>>
>
> Sure. But Scott Meyers would carry more weight. ;-)

Maybe, but Scott doesn't program for a living.  He'll never have the perspective
of an in-the-trenches C++ programmer discovering how Boost has just
made his life easier, so he could never say anything like that.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com