Spirit: History and Evolution - Joel de Guzman & Hartmut Kaiser [ BoostCon 2010 ]
Channel: CppNow
Date: 31/10/2013

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This year, we celebrate Spirit's 10th anniversary from its early
beginnings as an offshoot from a much larger GUI library in the 90s and
debuted into Boost in May 2001 in the typical "Is there interest in this
library?" fashion like all would be Boost libraries. From a humble 7
header file library, Spirit has grown to be one of the most
sophisticated Boost libraries and along the way became the incubator of
other Boost libraries such as Boost.Fusion, Boost.Phoenix, and Boost.Wave
and played a significant role for Boost.Proto getting mature.

We would like to present Spirit (and the libraries it inspired) in a
historical perspective. The presentation will aim to provide a lighter,
more intimate perspective into the development of at least 4 libraries
with almost a decade's worth of experience being Boost authors and
bonafide crazy template metaprogrammers who abuse operators like Mad
Scientists. Of course, we can't help it if we show off some C++ tricks
here and there, but we'll try to keep it as light as we can.

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