Subject: Re: [boost] Twenty years and time to retire
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-22 16:31:29
> 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.
It was only last week that during a talk I was giving on C++ that I was
telling of your enormous contributions to C++ over so many decades.
Thank you for your service Beman, and tenacity on getting Filesystem
into the standard.
Niall