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@@ -113,6 +113,15 @@ accepted by the C++ committee for future standardization. Having a library
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accepted by Boost is
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one way to establish existing practice.</p>
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+<p><b>Where does the name "Boost" come from?</b> Boost began with
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+Robert Klarer and I fantasizing about a new library effort over dinner at a C++
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+committee meeting in Sofia Antipolis, France. Robert mentioned that Herb Sutter
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+was working on a spoof proposal for a new language named Booze, which was
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+supposed to be better than Java. Somehow that kicked off the idea of
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+"Boost" as a name. We'd probably had a couple of glasses of good
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+French wine at that point. It was just a working name, but no one ever came up
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+with a replacement. (Beman Dawes)</p>
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+
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<p><b>Is the web site a commercial business?</b> No. It is just some people getting together
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as a kind of cyberspace civic association. If it ever needs to incorporate, it would be as
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non-profit organization.</p>
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@@ -152,7 +161,7 @@ works well in actual practice. (Rainer Deyke)</p>
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-<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->18 September, 2001<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39344" -->
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+<p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->24 September, 2001<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39337" -->
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Beman Dawes