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I was talking about using Boost in the context of implementing options pricing code, that was the project that I was involved with. With regards to mentioning bugs in RNG code: it's not that I've actually encountered any kind of bug there (haven't used RNG Boost library much - if you're serious with regards to this type of work, kind of RNG implementations as these offered by Boost are simply not performant enough, and you'll anyway have to implement RNG on your own, to fully utilize hardware your code is executing on), but I was more trying to point out that once when you deal with code involving several templates, parametrized say by several other classes from some class hierarchies, it gets very hard to find where the code executed actually comes from, even for such banal purpose as to know say where to put some printout statements for the purpose of debugging, or understanding better the code execution paths. On the other side: while the overall impression certainly heavily depends on one's previous background, I'd say there exist other C++ "foundation" class libraries, with the purpose somewhat similar to Boost, that are demonstrating that it is possible to build this kind of library for C++ that is much easier to understand and use, performing better than Boost, and being much better documented - for example, I had great success with using Qt toolkit for much of this kind of stuff often needed in C++ code, but missing from C++ standard library.
I was talking about using Boost in the context of implementing options pricing code, that was the project that I was involved with. With regards to mentioning bugs in RNG code: it's not that I've actually encountered any kind of bug there (haven't used RNG Boost library much - if you're serious with regards to this type of work, kind of RNG implementations as these offered by Boost are simply not performant enough, and you'll anyway have to implement RNG on your own, to fully utilize hardware your code is executing on), but I was more trying to point out that once when you deal with code involving several templates, parametrized say by several other classes from some class hierarchies, it gets very hard to find where the code executed actually comes from, even for such banal purpose as to know say where to put some printout statements for the purpose of debugging, or understanding better the code execution paths.
On the other side: while the overall impression certainly heavily depends on one's previous background, I'd say there exist other C++ "foundation" class libraries, with the purpose somewhat similar to Boost, that are demonstrating that it is possible to build this kind of library for C++ that is much easier to understand and use, performing better than Boost, and being much better documented - for example, I had great success with using Qt toolkit for much of this kind of stuff often needed in C++ code, but missing from C++ standard library.
