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 <h1>Boost Libraries</h1>
+<p><a href="#Category">Libraries Listed by Category<br>
+</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#General">General use</a><br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Helpers">Helpers to ease construction of your
+own designs</a><br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Correctness">Correctness and testing</a><br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#workarounds">Broken compiler workarounds</a><br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Math">Math and numerics</a><br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#String">String and text processing</a><br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="#Other">Other domains</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
+<a href="#Alphabetically">Libraries Listed Alphabetically</a><br>
+<a href="#Obsolete">Obsolete Libraries</a><br>
+<a href="#Beta">Beta Libraries</a></p>
+
+<p>See <a href="../status/compiler_status.html">Compiler Status</a>
+ page to find out what library works with which compiler.<br>
+See <a href="hdr_depend.html">Header Dependencies</a>  page to find
+out what other headers each boost header includes.<br>
+See <a href="../more/download.html">Download and Installation</a>  page to find out
+how to download and install the libraries.<br>
+See <a href="../tools/build/index.html">Building Boost Libraries</a>  page to find
+out how to build object libraries, when needed.</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
+
+<h3><a name="General">General</a> use</h3>
+
+<ul>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
+      values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.&nbsp;</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/array/index.htm">array</a> - STL compliant
+        container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
+        Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/conversion/index.htm">conversion</a> - Numeric,
+        polymorphic, and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
+        Kevlin Henney.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
+      Walker.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
+      Steve Cleary.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/smart_ptr/index.htm">smart_ptr</a> - Four smart
+        pointer classes, from Greg Colvin and Beman Dawes.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/timer/index.htm">timer</a> - Event timer,
+        progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
+        Dawes.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
+        plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
+      <b>prior(),</b> and <b>tie()</b>
+        function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="Helpers">Helpers</a> to ease construction of your own designs</h3>
+
+<ul>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
+        Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
+        Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/compose/index.htm">compose</a> - Functional
+        composition adapters for the STL, from Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
+        - Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
+        Hinnant, et al.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
+      for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
+        function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/utility/iterator_adaptors.htm">iterator adaptors</a>
+        - Adapt a base type into a standard conforming iterator,
+        and more, from Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and John
+        Potter.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
+        ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
+        and Jeremy Siek.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
+        - Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
+        value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
+    from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/type_traits/index.htm">type_traits</a> -
+        Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
+        Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
+        plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>&nbsp;
+      <b>prior(),</b> and <b>tie()</b>
+        function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
+
+<ul>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
+        - Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
+        - Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
+        Maddock.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/test/doc/index.htm">test</a> - Support for program testing and
+      execution, from Beman Dawes.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds"> workarounds</a></h3>
+
+<ul>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
+      non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
+      Maurer.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/config/index.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
+        library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
+        intended for library users.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3>
+
+<ul>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/integer/index.htm">integer</a> - Headers to ease
+        dealing with integral types.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/math/octonion/index.html">math/octonion</a> -
+      Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/math/quaternion/index.html">math/quaterion</a> -
+      Quaterions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/math/special_functions/index.html">math/special_functions</a> -
+        Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
+        from Hubert Holin.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
+        system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
+        number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3>
+
+<ul>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/regex/index.htm">regex</a> - Regular expression
+        library, from John Maddock</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/tokenizer/index.htm">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
+      character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela..</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="Other">Other</a> domains</h3>
+
+<ul>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
+        Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
+        and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
+    <li><a href="../../../temp/python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
+        classes and functions into <a
+        href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
+        Abrahams.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr>
+
+<h2>Libraries Listed <a name="Alphabetically">Alphabetically</a></h2>
 
 <ul>
     <li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
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         function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
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-<p>See <a href="../status/compiler_status.html">Compiler Status</a>
-to find out what library works with which compiler.</p>
-
-<p>See <a href="hdr_depend.html">Header Dependencies</a> to find
-out what other headers each boost header includes.</p>
-
-<p>See <a href="../more/download.html">Download and Installation</a> to find out
-how to download and install the libraries.</p>
-
-<p>See <a href="../tools/build/index.html">Building Boost Libraries</a> to find
-out how to build object libraries, when needed.</p>
+<hr>
 
-<h2>Obsolete Libraries</h2>
+<h2><a name="Obsolete">Obsolete</a> Libraries</h2>
 
 <ul>
     <li><a href="min_rand/index.htm">min_rand</a> - a random
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         href="random/index.html">random</a>.</li>
 </ul>
 
-<h2>Beta Libraries</h2>
+<hr>
+
+<h2><a name="Beta">Beta</a> Libraries</h2>
+
+<p>Boost no longer supports beta libraries on the Boost web site.&nbsp; These
+libraries will soon be either submitted for formal review or removed.</p>
 
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     <li><a href="array_traits/index.html">array_traits</a> -
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 <p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED"
-s-format="%d %b %Y" startspan -->19 Aug 2001<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="14767" --></p>
+s-format="%d %b %Y" startspan -->06 Sep 2001<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="14936" --></p>
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