Re: [boost] Tribute to John Kalb

The C++ committee hasn't really been able to replace Boost. It's too slow and cumbersome.

That's right. However, the results are often more intuitive and the implementations faster (if adopted).

Boost has had a large role in saving C++ from decline into obscurity.

I don't see it that bad. Of course, boost kicked the ass of the C++ committee, otherwise they would probably never get out of their pots. boost has done a lot for C++11. On the other hand, quite a few libs got stuck on this standard (incl. many emulations for C++98/03) which were then never updated/archaic code was not removed, which leads to increasing problems.