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
