Pretty close. Back in high school, I was the 'Pascal guy' and one of my friends was the 'C guy.' One day, the friend, after looking through the large list of co

Pretty close. Back in high school, I was the 'Pascal guy' and one of my friends was the 'C guy.' One day, the friend, after looking through the large list of compiler and linker optimizations available in Borland C++ (and confirming they weren't in my Turbo Pascal) said we should have a Hello World file size competition--see who could get the smallest filesize with our respective languages (compilers really). He spent half a class period digging through the options, reading what would be best, then typed his Hello World program, and announced he was ready. Literally while his code was compiling (these were 386 machines IIRC which took some seconds back in the day), I typed the one-liner and built my code with Turbo Pascal...before his compilation was done. I had no idea if my executable would be bigger or smaller than his, but I didn't want to put effort into the contest until I knew I was behind. As it turns out, it was about half the size of the C executable and he never asked for a round two. My friend was very frustrated that day. Fun day. EDIT: I did some research. They were actually at best 286 machines. The computer lab had those IBM PS/2 all-in-ones with MCGA graphics.