Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (2011)
9 points by bert
9 points by bert
The 49MB Web Page is on the homepage today - it feels like an appropriate time to contextualize how much computers can accomplish with very little data by today's standards.
The touch command under OS X Lion (44,016 bytes).
This reminds me of some article that mentions how yes can be refactored to be smaller.
IMHO the only thing that we’ve improved upon and justified the complexity is better accessibility for users of different abilities, and improved handling of non-Latin writing systems.
Other than that I feel like there’s a lotta bloat for the sake of bloat.
It's not for the sake of bloat, it's due to the complete colapse of a proper engineering culture. One of making reasonable usage of a available resources. Instead we went down the bottomless pit of ever fancier eye candy and just throwing more resources are problems. The whole cloud industry exists so you can easily just throw more money into something that just taking time, skill and knowledge to properly solve whatever problem.
We didn't make resource efficient programs in 1986 because we had a proper engineering culture, whatever that is. We did it because we had no resources.