Boost logo

Boost :

Subject: Re: [boost] Twenty years and time to retire
From: Howard Hinnant (howard.hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-22 16:10:06


On Sep 22, 2018, at 10:19 AM, Beman Dawes via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> 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, not only for boost, but all of mentoring and help you’ve offered to me personally over the years. The C++ world would be a much different place without your massive contributions to it.

Howard




Boost list run by bdawes at acm.org, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, cpdaniel at pacbell.net, john at johnmaddock.co.uk