On 02/11/2011 12:27 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:

>> The Turbo Pascal compiler also has many command-line options, and - I
>> would suggest - *far* more error messages than the touch command. Not to
>> mention a complete Pascal parser, AST manipulations, code generator,
>> etc. Clearly it "should" be way, way bigger.
>
> The article mentions the size of the main executable only (the editor).
> It doesn't list all the associated .OVL (ancestors to .DLLs) and text
> files it required, and the fact that the actual compiler was a separate
> executable called by the IDE.

The article doesn't seem to even *specify* exactly what it measured the 
size of. Because, as you say, the Turbo Pascal environment definitely 
consists of more than just one file...

Post a reply to this message