Foreword
When I first looked at this book, I felt envious. After all, what led me to the discovery of generic programming was the desire to build a library like the Boost Graph Library (BGL). In 1984 I joined the faculty of Polytechnic University in Brooklyn with some vague ideas about building libraries of software components. Well, to tell you the truth that was my secondary interest—my real interest at that time was to construct formal underpinnings of natural language, something like Aristotle’s Organon, but more complete and formal. I was probably the only assistant professor in any Electrical Engineering or Computer Science department who meant to obtain tenure through careful study of Aristotle’s Categories. Interestingly enough, the ...
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