Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)

I was pleased to discover that touch is now only 22kb in the latest MacOS. A better match in El Capitan to the size of Turbo Pascal would be /bin/ls, which is 38.5kb.

The trend to bloat over time is unfortunate, but Turbo Pascal 3 was almost without a doubt hand written in assembly. Productivity of the creators didn't really enter into the equation.

I think a more interesting comparison is that the average web page is now larger than Doom. That's a lot less excusable.

The instant classic on web page bloat:

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

Article is from 2011.

I have not checked, but I bet the 2016 list would be more interesting.