Cocoa: main int function

Question

I'm curious what role does the main int function play in a Cocoa program? Almost the entire code sample that I was looking at has only the following code in main.m:

#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

    return NSApplicationMain(argc,  (const char **) argv);
}

What exactly does this do, and where does the program really begin to go through the commands? It seems that my concepts need restructuring.

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