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		esnible3 on April 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) Turbo Pascal is 3.7x smaller than the Wikipedia page describing it. Wikipedia's prose description of Turbo Pascal is 148k.

eyelidlessness on April 12, 2020 [–]

I'm curious how large the actual components delivering that page are. I suspect they're significantly larger. HTML output (in this case) is a product of a program, not the program itself.

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