I'm skipping the chapter on boost.utility. It's got some cool stuff, but nothing that I consider exciting. Operators, on the other hand, are a great topic. Before I dig into this, I'm going to address the scurrilous accusation that I'm all about C++ as the ultimate programming language! C++ actually has a number of weaknesses that I readily acknowledge. It has no native GUI functionality, which makes discussions of GUI programming "interesting" at best. There is a lot of modern ...