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Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
- hrayr 10y agoArticle is from 2011. I have not checked, but I bet the 2016 list would be more interesting.
- sievebrain 10y agoI was pleased to discover that touch is now only 22kb in the latest MacOS. A better match in El Capitan to the size of Turbo Pascal would be /bin/ls, which is 38.5kb. The trend to bloat over time is unfortunate, but Turbo Pascal 3 was almost without a doubt hand written in assembly. Productivity of the creators didn't really enter into the equation. I think a more interesting comparison is that the average web page is now larger than Doom. That's a lot less excusable. The instant classic on web page bloat: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm