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What these legacy comparisons often miss: for human use, you also need documentation (and sometimes even things like error messages). This was not part of the b
by miohtama 2y ago
What these legacy comparisons often miss: for human use, you also need documentation (and sometimes even things like error messages). This was not part of the binary, but delivered on paper. The manuals were much larger than the binary.
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoWhen they compare the binary size to, say, jQuery, jQuery’s documentation is not included either.
- pjmlp 2y agoBy the time of the Turbo Vision IDE (TP 6), Turbo Pascal had online help, it was three floppies full installation.
- akira2501 2y agoTurbo Pascal 3 had compiler error message strings. Half of the manual was reference material and things like ASCII tables. Without Internet having a lot of extraneous material in manuals was not uncommon. These older compilers also did nearly direct translation of your code into assembly, barely did any optimization, and made heavy use of the stack to smooth everything out. Pascal, in particular, due to it's ability to nest procedures and native set types generated some pretty suboptimal code. It's why we had things like register variables and decent inline assembly primitives.