It took 69 single steps to get past a BOOST_FOREACH() statement. Madness.

I can't imagine a situation where I would add Boost to a project.

Sure, it drags C++ by its angle bracket into a higher abstraction level, if you want that. But adding the core of Boost to any project is like a snake swallowing an elephant made of source files. Even worse, they're practically all template header files. This is not a virtue. I just can't see myself really wanting to make that tradeoff.

I had always felt a little dirty using it, and resisted looking behind the curtain. This tweet has piqued my curiosity too much though.

Its definition, for those interested: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_44_0/boost/foreach.hpp

An brief and interesting quote from John Carmack. While I still love C++, it seems the language moves is moving further and further away from practical usefulness, in terms of compile time, good error messages and debugability all the time.