funny. i was totally trolled for the first paragraph or two. did anyone else immediately have to go check how big hello world builds? elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$

funny. i was totally trolled for the first paragraph or two. did anyone else immediately have to go check how big hello world builds? elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$ echo "#include<iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << \"hello world\"; } " > hello.cpp elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$ g++ hello.cpp elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$ ls -lh a.out -rwxr-xr-x 1 elipse elipse 8.8K Dec 6 13:46 a.out elipse@lappy:~/Desktop$ not half a meg, but still kinda big if you stop and think about it, but the c way with printf was only a couple of hundred bytes smaller...