Rene Rivera writes:
loufoque wrote:
So we should put boost into the standard library because of the stupidity of some companies or team leaders ?
Some of those "companies" have no choice. For example a government contractor must comply with regulatory restrictions, many of which correspond to some form of international or US standards.
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