Comment by tomcam

> I wish I could travel back in time and the people who wrote Turbo Pascal could probably teach me a thing or two about size optimization tricks.

Uh you’re doing fine. You are a complete beast and deeply inspiring.

P.S. At Microsoft I worked with Anders Hejlsberg, who created Turbo Pascal (and C#, typescript, etc.) I took full advantage of my position and peppered him with questions about compiler writing, which he endured with grace and good humor.