Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Dr. What
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Jan 05 2024 06:36:00

-=> Dr. What wrote to Bob Worm <=-

 DW> Because of Turbo Pascal.  Pascal was designed to be an efficient, one
 DW> pass compile, language and it lived up to it.  Turbo Pascal was a great
 DW> tool that produced efficient code.


 Tiny, too.

(From https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html)

The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and IDE--was
39,731 bytes. How does that stack up in 2011 terms? Here are some things
that Turbo Pascal is smaller than, as of October 30, 2011:

The minified version of jquery 1.6 (90,518 bytes).

The yahoo.com home page (219,583 bytes).

The image of the white iPhone 4S at apple.com (190,157 bytes).

zlib.h in the Mac OS X Lion SDK (80,504 bytes).

The touch command under OS X Lion (44,016 bytes).

Various vim quick reference cards as PDFs. (This one is 47,508 bytes.)

The compiled code for the Erlang R14B02 parser (erl_parse.beam, 286,324
bytes).

The Wikipedia page for C++ (214,251 bytes).




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