Re: How important is software maintenance?

Pascal Bourguignon said:

Any program starts as:

int main(void){
return(0);
}

Not on my watch, it doesn't. For one thing, unnecessary parentheses
should be eschewed. More importantly, most of the programs I write
nowadays make heavy use of libraries that I wrote some time ago, so
there's a case for saying that main() is how the program ends, rather
than how it starts.

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