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Encourage people not to use Blitz++

Author: citibeth

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+# IMPORTANT NOTICE
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+Blitz++ written for the C++98 standard, and is not able to make use of the substantial benefits that came with C++11.  Although it works as well as ever, as of 2024, Blitz++ is thoroughly obsolete, which results in a number of annoyances when using it in modern C++ code.
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+In the meantime, Fortran-90 / NumPy style arrays have received high-level thought in the C++ Standards community, resulting in `std::mdspan`.  I highly recommend anyone starting a new project to consider this alternative before using Blitz++.  MDSpan is part of C++23 and in theory should be supported by popular compilers "out of the box."  If your C++ compiler does not (yet) support MDSpan, I would try using the publicly available [Reference Implemenation](https://github.com/kokkos/mdspan).  Here is more information on MDSpan:
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+* https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/mdspan
+* https://www.studyplan.dev/pro-cpp/mdspan
+* https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1646434
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+Blitz++ has not received new features for many years, and will not going forward either.  However, it is likely to be required for many years by a number of existing projects, and is provided here for users and developers of those projects.
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+# Overview
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 Blitz++ is a C++ template class library that provides high-performance multidimensional array containers
 for scientific computing.