I risk keeping on spamming, but anyway, here are some words from inside Google. Sean Parent once worked at Adobe, where it acted as Adobe Source ibraries developer. ASL is a fine library that I often use as a complement to boost. He recently (Oct 2009) wrote in the asl-devel mailing list: <citation> I'm now at Google working on ChromeOS. The Google style guide (adhered to by most of Google) has made it a bit difficult for me to spend too much time on ASL. [...] Some of the more challenging parts are - limited use of Boost, no exception handling, and discouraged copy and assignment. Right now I feel like I'm coding with one hand behind my back </citation> I think that style guide is pretty phased out by now, almost twelve years after the C++98 Standard. Yours, Kenneth