Google-fu fail. I’m looking for an old thing (~20y old?) about hello world program, I think by Bjarne Stroustroup, showing how if you actually took everything into consideration the code would grow from 3 lines to 100s. Might have been in an essay, listserv or book extract. Help?
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Hmm it might be this interview. Rings a bell (it was after a joke fake interview did the rounds) stroustrup.com/ieee_interview
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You're sure you're not thinking of the McIlroy response to Knuth's literate programming example? And the aftermath to that?
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Hmm might have been aftermath but it’s definitely not this. Also I am fairly sure there’s more as in C++ and hello world specifically
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I'm not quite sure what you're talking about but I couldn't help but search anyway. Is this what nerdsniping is? Have I been nerdsniped?
Anyway, this isn't quite what you're looking for but it's hilarious (or maybe he's totally serious, not sure...).
stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html
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