Socket wrapper class

[nobody]

Hello,

I have only recently found boost.org. I spent the 
first 4 years of my programming life in Smalltalk; I 
LOVED it and was very sad to see it (virtually) die. 
In the last (very painful) year I have been working in 
C++. A very smart friend of mine once told me "there 
is no sbustitute for hard work". I have been working 
hard in C++ and I am starting to get it ... a little 
bit. What I miss from Smalltalk is the abstraction. I 
have just begun my exploration of Templates and 
Containers/Iterators/Algorightms and I am very 
excited; they give back to me some of the abstraction 
I had in Smalltalk.

I have not noticed any Networking abstractions here. I 
was just reading 
http://www.cuj.com/current/feature.htm?topic=current 
which is an article about wrapping sockets. Does 
boost.org have any thoughts/interest in providing this 
sort of functionality? I would enjoy using abstract 
networking classes. 

If boost.org does not have the time/resources to do it 
at the moment I would be happy to contribute code, 
once my code is worth contributing. I suppose I should 
join.

Are there issues with wrapping such topics that I 
prevent (a) useful implementation(s)?

I apologize if this is not the appropriate place to 
submit this thought or if I have missed the networking 
section somewhere.

This is a great site and I look forward to 
using/contributing to boost.org!

Tyler Ford
digital comms firmware engineer at Agilent Technologies
707-577-2998