I 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 3

I 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