Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 18:30:25 -0500 (EST) From: Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: polstra.com!jdp@bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu Cc: freebsd.org!hackers@bsd7.cs.sunysb.edu Subject: Re: SUP on sup.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199611062330.SAA22264@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611061839.KAA10633@austin.polstra.com> (message from John Polstra on Wed, 06 Nov 1996 10:39:03 -0800)
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>As to the "*GIANT*, *BLOATED* language subsystem," you are out of >date on that. The current CVSup package (the one from the packages Well, sorry, but I have in fact built the Modula 3 distribution, and IMHO it is extremely large, rivaling, if not surpassing, GNU CC in bloat. >collection, not the static binary release which is completely >stand-alone) depends only on the "modula-3-lib" package, whose >tarball is < 1 MB and which occupies 3.2 MB when fully installed. >BTW, if you think 3.2 MB is still too giant and bloated, well, >welcome to the 1980's, Bubba. ;-) Yes, I do, as a drop-in replacement for something that was under 60K. I understand that it has a GUI and all sorts of functionality, but I still think it is large and bloated. Just my opinion. - Gene Stark
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