There is probably no need to remind you how software bloat increases with time, but I found this particularly striking:
The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and IDE--was 39,731 bytes. Here are some things that Turbo Pascal is smaller than, as of October 30, 2011: [...] The touch command under OS X Lion (44,016 bytes). Source: http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html -- Pierre Chapuis
