Here is a list of all the open bugs that were created in 2001. Are we going to fix any of these ... ever? #913 Specialization of lexical_cast lexical_cast kevlin <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/913> #916 BPL Support for Python Callable Objects Python dave <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/916> #918 __doc__ strings Python dave <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/918> [ This bug has seen some activity recently, at least ] #920 Proposed extension to random library random jmaurer <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/920> #922 Lexical cast and wide characters lexical_cas nobody <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/922> #928 VC6: should __fastcall be defined? regex johnmaddock <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/928> [ This bug was closed in 2001, and reopened in 2007! ] #930 iostream and zlib iostreams nobody <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/930> [ I assigned this to Doug. ] #17 Socket wrapper class asio az_sw_dude <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/17> #30 parser functional mark_rodgers <http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/30> [ Is this satisfied by 'program_options'? ] Thanks to everyone for their help in getting the bug count down! -- -- Marshall Marshall Clow Qualcomm, Inc. <mailto:mclow@qualcomm.com> The famous British scientist, Lord Kelvin, said: "When you measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you cannot (or do not) measure it, when you cannot (or do not) express it in numbers, then your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."