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  36   <h2 class="title">Welcome to the Boost C++ Libraries</h2>
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  38   <p>Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.</p>
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  40   <p>We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library.
  41   Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad
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  44   commercial and non-commercial use.</p>
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  46   <p>We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference
  47   implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual
  48   standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the <a href=
  49   "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/">C++ Standards Committee's</a>
  50   Library Technical Report (<a href=
  51   "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1745.pdf">TR1</a>)
  52   and will be included in the upcoming revision of the C++ Standard. More
  53   Boost libraries are proposed for the upcoming <a href=
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  56   <h3>Changes in this release</h3>
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  58   <p>This release includes <i><b>4 new libraries</b></i> and
  59   updates for many existing libraries. See
  60   <a href="http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_36_0">Release
  61   History</a> for more information.</p>
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  63   <h3>Getting Started</h3>
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  75   <p>The release directory tree contains almost all of Boost; documentation,
  76   sources, headers, scripts, tools, and everything else a Boost user might
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  81   <p>The starting point for the documentation of individual libraries is the
  82   <a href="libs/libraries.htm">Libraries page</a>, which gives a brief
  83   description of each library and links to its documentation.</p>
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  85   <h3>Web Site</h3>
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  87   <p>Some general interest or often changing Boost information lives only on
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  89   links to the site, so while browsing it you'll see occasional broken links
  90   if you aren't connected to the Internet. But everything needed to use the
  91   Boost libraries is contained within the release.</p>
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  93   <h3>Background</h3>
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  95   <p>Read the <a href="http://www.boost.org/users/">introductory material</a>
  96   to help you understand what Boost is about and to help in educating your
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