Talk:Boost C++ Libraries
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[edit] Modern C++
Why not reword "modern c++" to include either the 1998 specification with templates or "c++ with STL" style wording. There is also a compiler support/regression page available such as [1]. Laundrypowder 04:43, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
- I would say it heavy template use ala Alexandrescu that people understand as "modern". The article need complete rewrite, it is pretty stalled. Pavel Vozenilek 05:41, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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- I won't complain if you leave the term then. Laundrypowder 05:47, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Article rename
What about renaming the article to "Boost library" (or similar) instead? I find "Boost (programming)" a bit inelegant? --Fredrik Orderud 20:28, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
- Article rename is now performed. --Fredrik Orderud 23:35, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
- What about Boost libraries (plural)? --24.189.158.214
- The page was moved again to Boost (software), despite the above. Instead of moving it straight back, I moved it to Boost C++ Libraries since the article is about the libraries, rather than the 'supplier'. From the home page: Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. Does that seem reasonable? -- drrngrvy tlk @ 20:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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- After many years there I can assure you that nobody knows :-) If you wander through the site, or the developers' list archives, you'll find all of "Boost library" (as if referring to a single library), "Boost libraries" or "Boost C++ libraries". And of course the name "boost dot org" somehow suggests —but doesn't imply— an organization (whatever that term means). The same pseudo-ambiguity between "library" and "libraries" exists after all in the C++ standard: we and the standard talk about "the standard library" while the single clauses refer to "Containers library", "Iterators library", "Input/output library" etc. Similarly, "boost" is often referred to the site, to the community or the "virtual place", as in "We at Wikipedia try to do our best". All things considered I'd choose between "Boost libraries" and "Boost C++ libraries", with a slight preference for the latter. —Gennaro Prota•Talk 21:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] what does boost stand for ?
if it stand for something...
See: http://www.boost.org/more/faq.htm Where does the name "Boost" come from? Boost began with Robert Klarer and I fantasizing about a new library effort over dinner at a C++ committee meeting in Sofia Antipolis, France, in 1998. Robert mentioned that Herb Sutter was working on a spoof proposal for a new language named Booze, which was supposed to be better than Java. Somehow that kicked off the idea of "Boost" as a name. We'd probably had a couple of glasses of good French wine at that point. It was just a working name, but no one ever came up with a replacement. Otodoran 23:57, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
