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  <h2 class="title">Welcome to the Boost C++ Libraries</h2>

  <p>Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.</p>

  <p>We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library.
  Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad
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  commercial and non-commercial use.</p>

  <p>We aim 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 <a href=
  "http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/">C++ Standards Committee's</a>
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  <p>The release directory tree contains almost all of Boost; documentation,
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  <h3>Library Documentation</h3>

  <p>The starting point for the documentation of individual libraries is the
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  <h3>Web Site</h3>

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