Network programming has been around for a very long time, and it's definitely
not a task for the faint-hearted. Boost.Asio provides an excellent abstraction over
it, making sure that with a minimal amount of coding, you can create beautiful
client-server applications and have tons of fun doing it. And it throws some extra
non-networking features, just as a bonus! Code that uses Boost.Asio is compact,
easy to read, and if you follow what I describe in the book, it is bug-free.