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Re:OpenBSD base now free of C++ by dchest on Monday March 14, 2011 @01:33PM (#2323472)
Well, C++ compiler is bloat, as is standard library. There's an effort to use Portable C Compiler (which recently reached 1.0 http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/news/) to compile OpenBSD.

Plus, from mandoc website (http://mdocml.bsd.lv/):

Why? groff amounts to over 5 MB of source code, ...

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