Well that's good I guess but even some articles, minor overview. I mean rather than read all the library functions one by one or by areas, what are the main advantages of Boost? What does it have that I can't get with my compiler? --- In Boost-Users@y..., "James Curran/MVP" wrote:

Well, the good news is that there's a book in the works...

The bad news is that it's been stalled, and it'll probably be a

it's out.

-- Truth, James Curran www.NovelTheory.com (Personal) www.NJTheater.com (Professional) www.aurora-inc.com (Day job)

"Sam Gentile" wrote in message news:004601c281b8$fbca4d20$af5c3d18@DOTNET...

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I am new to Boost. I have looked at the Boost Documentation on

year before the web

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(http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm) and although it does a very excellent job of listing all the libraries, it doesn't really have any overview documents or tutorials as such. What I would like is some documents that tell me the power of Boost, what its useful for, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sam Gentile wrote:

Well that's good I guess but even some articles, minor overview. I mean rather than read all the library functions one by one or by areas, what are the main advantages of Boost? What does it have that I can't get with my compiler?

Just scan this page http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm#Category It should give you a quick overview of what's available. The first things that stood out for me when I read over it was the graph library and shared pointer stuff. -- P: Egad! You astound me, Brain! B: That's a simple task, Pinky.