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Subject: Re: [boost] Twenty years and time to retire
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-25 15:12:38


On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 7:20 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.
>

Thank you, Beman.
Thank you for your contributions, your vision and your advice.

The C++ world is much richer due to your efforts, but (today) poorer now
that you've retired.

-- Marshall


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