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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] Twenty years and time to retire
From: Antony Polukhin (antoshkka_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-24 09:24:53


On Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 17:20 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!
>
> --Beman
>

Thank you Beman for all your work on Boost. Boost is my favourite "book" on
C++. It does not have much pictures, but the content is perfect :) I've
grown up on it's stories and keep getting fun with each new accepted
library. Many thanks!

Separate huge thanks for the std::filesystem!

>



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