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  [2]programming in the
  twenty-first century

  It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to
  implement your ideas.

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

  Turbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS was released in September 1986. Being version
  3, there were lesser releases prior to it and flashier ones after, but
  3 was a solid representation of the Turbo Pascal experience: a full
  Pascal compiler, including extensions that it made it practical for
  commercial use, tightly integrated with an editor. And the whole thing
  was lightning fast, orders of magnitude faster at building projects
  than Microsoft's compilers.

  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. ([3]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).

  (If you liked this, you might like [4]A Personal History of Compilation
  Speed.)

  [5]permalink October 30, 2011

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    * [6]Starting in the Middle
    * [7]Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages
    * [8]The Revolution is Personal
    * [9]Optimization on a Galactic Scale
    * [10]Greetings from the Bottom of the Benchmarks

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  video games since the 1980s. [15]Programming Without Being Obsessed
  With Programming and [16]Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic
  Wizardry are good starting points. For the older stuff, try the
  [17]2012 Retrospective.

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