Nicklaus Wirth cared about not wasting machine resources. He also wrote “a plea for lean software”: > “Abstract: Software's girth has surpassed its functional

Nicklaus Wirth cared about not wasting machine resources. He also wrote “a plea for lean software”: > “Abstract: Software's girth has surpassed its functionality, largely because hardware advances make this possible. The way to streamline software lies in disciplined methodologies and a return to the essentials. The paper discusses some causes of "fat software" and considers the Oberon system whose primary goal was to show that software can be developed with a fraction of the memory capacity and processor power usually required, without sacrificing flexibility, functionality, or user convenience.”