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Hello Roy - 

CA>> The older Pacific C (K&R) would fit on one 1.4meg floppy
CA>> which I  thought was a hoot! Being K&R became a 'stopper'
CA>> but it was neat that you could put it on one floppy. :-) 

RJT> Are you saying here that it being K&R rather than ANSI
RJT> made it less useful to you? Or am I mis-reading your
RJT> comment here? 

Yes, it became less useful when code was no longer written as
K&R. 

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RJT> I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way... I'm
RJT> also getting *real* tired of reaching for a man page and
RJT> being told that the bloody man page "is no longer being
RJT> maintained and I should look at the info pages instead"...! 

RJT> It's got me aggravated enough that I'm about ready to
RJT> convert that info stuff to some other format, and get it
RJT> off my system! 

I was a bit perplexed when adding manpage functions to a
mini-install to find there were _two_ of them (info, and
'man'). 

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CA>> The hardware we all have (even me) and the software we use
CA>> daily is so bloated that size has to double before anyone
CA>> gets uncomfortable and even then it's considered a speed
CA>> bump by most (yes, even me). 

RJT> I still like lean and streamlined code, and stuff that
RJT> runs that has "snap" to it. I managed that with what
RJT> little programming I did under cp/m, way back when, and
RJT> prefer to do similar stuff these days, when I can manage
RJT> it. 

I like tight code but the time for kudos for writing tight code
has long since passed an I am reluctant to put in the
time/effort required to produce it. 

CA>> For anyone reading this message that is truly interested
CA>> in the size of binaries this one programmer's story about
CA>> how he managed to reduce the size of a binary might be
CA>> interesting reading. When I read this website it reminded
CA>> me of similar discussions that I followed between Unix C
CA>> programmers many many years ago. 

CA>> (from a link at my tech website): 

CA>> http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.ht
CA>>  

RJT> Where on your site? I was there earlier, though I left
RJT> before I got done looking around... 

The link exists on the "compiler" webpage. 

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