22 Sep
2018
22 Sep
'18
4:31 p.m.
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