It's not really boilerplate in the classical sense, he's just talking about headers and lines that have only a brace on them. I think it's a fair statement. Pl

It's not really boilerplate in the classical sense, he's just talking about headers and lines that have only a brace on them. I think it's a fair statement. Plus, he could have reduced lines even further to get down to about 6, like vector<string> data; string line; for (ifstream ifile(argv[1]); getline(ifile, line);) data.push_back(line); sort(begin(data), end(data)); copy(begin(data), end(data), ostream_iterator<string>(ofstream(argv[2]), "\n")); And his `return 0` was superfluous so I removed it. Unfortunately we work with iterator pairs in C++; if we had ranges like D does, we could turn those last two into copy(sort(data), ...) but alas we cannot.