>> Yeah, it does take a lot, and it uses unicode for characters too,
>> I think I heard it takes about 12 bytes per character that way.
>> It's perty bad on big files.
>
>  But hey, that's the fad in modern programming: Memory usage and speed
> are irrelevant. Processors are getting faster and memory amounts are
> doubling every couple of years, so who cares if something like a string
> takes 12 times as much memory as it could?

Wasn't that part of  Leo Brodie's point, it's more important that a
solution be adequate, and correct than simple?

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