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Subject: Re: [boost] Twenty years and time to retire
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-22 15:16:20


On 9/22/18 5:19 PM, Beman Dawes via Boost wrote:
> The idea behind Boost was hatched in March, 1998, and the proposal document
> <https://www.boost.org/users/proposal.pdf> was released May 6, 1998. That
> makes Boost twenty years old, and makes me twenty years older. It is high
> time I retire from Boost; I haven't been able to contribute for some time
> now.
>
> Thanks to all of you who made Boost such an overwhelming success in the
> past and will drive Boost forward into a bright future!

Thank you, Beman. You're one of the fathers of Boost, the project that I
chose to contribute for the first time many years ago and still enjoy
contributing to and working with. Your input in Boost and C++ is invaluable.


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