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I admire terse code too. I can relate. I'm also old. But: > we had 10KM HDDs so every char counts. Ten kilometre hard disk drives? It can't be 10kB. Hard di

I admire terse code too. I can relate. I'm also old. But: > we had 10KM HDDs so every char counts. Ten kilometre hard disk drives? It can't be 10kB. Hard disks were never that small. Floppy disks were never that small. Maybe it's not hard disk drives. It can't be length of tape, or of mercury delay lines. I am mystified.

lproven 2y ago
thinks more 2 characters wrong? 10 MB hard disks?
jajko 2y ago
I was just joking, sorry not a native english speaker. What I meant was that disk space with code text was never an issue on modern PC, so optimizing for that doesn't make sense.
- lproven 2y ago
  Oh I see!