Lean and Mean

The first time I saw the phrase “Lean and Mean” was back in the day, in the most peculiar place; a C pre-processing header in the Windows API (the actual name was WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN). If you #defined this in your program, it excluded some library headers from your program, resulting in a smaller executable (according to the documentation).

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