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+Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
+
+The emphasis is on libraries that work well with the C++ Standard
+Library. Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable
+across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages
+both commercial and non-commercial use.
+
+The goal is to establish "existing practice" and provide reference
+implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual
+standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the C++
+Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) and will be in
+the new C++0x Standard now being finalized. C++0x will also include
+several more Boost libraries in addition to those from TR1. More Boost
+libraries are proposed for TR2.
+
+WWW: http://www.boost.org/