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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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

