Re: [boost] List of C++ 11 only Boost libraries and their status?

Subject: Re: [boost] List of C++ 11 only Boost libraries and their status?
From: Rob Stewart (robertstewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-11-30 17:18:09

On November 30, 2014 12:30:57 PM EST, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>Bjorn Reese wrote
>
>This is one reason
>why I have a lot of reservations about the whole concept of
>of the "standard library".  Maybe the world is a better place if
>it has room for various serialization libraries which implement
>similar ideas but with different choices and compromises.  A
>standard library can't do this.

Once there's a standard version of something, people get comfortable using it because it's available as a default. When that proves insufficient, they start looking for something better elsewhere. That means getting something decent, but not ideal, in the Standard can jumpstart things.

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Rob

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