What is Boost?
Boost is a collection of free, peer-reviewed, portable, open source libraries in C++. Over the last decade and a half, there have been, as of this writing, 57 releases of the Boost libraries. In this span, Boost has released libraries of compelling usefulness that promote correct, portable, efficient, and readable C++ code. A number of prominent Standards Committee members are also the most active participants in Boost and subsequent directions of C++ standardization have been heavily influenced by the work done at Boost. Boost has provided the Standards Committee with the laboratory they need to perfect their ideas for the best new features that C++ should have. Several Boost libraries were included in the Technical Report 1 of ...
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