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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
  42   spectrum of applications. The <a href=
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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 <span style="background-color: #FFFF00">???</span>
  59   new libraries as well as
  60   updates to many existing libraries. See
  61   <a href="http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_40_0">Release
  62   History</a> for more information.</p>
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  64   <h3>Getting Started</h3>
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  74   <h3>Contents</h3>
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  76   <p>The release directory tree contains almost all of Boost; documentation,
  77   sources, headers, scripts, tools, and everything else a Boost user might
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  80   <h3>Library Documentation</h3>
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  82   <p>The starting point for the documentation of individual libraries is the
  83   <a href="libs/libraries.htm">Libraries page</a>, which gives a brief
  84   description of each library and links to its documentation.</p>
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  86   <h3>Web Site</h3>
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  88   <p>Some general interest or often changing Boost information lives only on
  89   the <a href="http://www.boost.org">Boost web site</a>. The release contains
  90   links to the site, so while browsing it you'll see occasional broken links
  91   if you aren't connected to the Internet. But everything needed to use the
  92   Boost libraries is contained within the release.</p>
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  94   <h3>Background</h3>
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  96   <p>Read the <a href="http://www.boost.org/users/">introductory material</a>
  97   to help you understand what Boost is about and to help in educating your
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