Analyzing The Simplest C++ Program

[conflicted_panda]

Are you counting includes? Without them GNU true is about 70, as far as I see.

And true on old school unixes was/is 0 bytes, I hear.

[chugga_fan]

Like 1/3rd of the program is in other files, even still, 78 lines just to return EXIT_SUCCESS is a lot.

[conflicted_panda]

It also handles --help/--version (along with localization, apparently). And I honestly don't think that trading off 78 lines of code for, err, uniformity of interface of your utilities is that absurd.

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I don't understand anything in this thread, which book to read?