22 Mar
2018
22 Mar
'18
12:17 a.m.
On 3/21/2018 6:18 PM, William Corcoran wrote:
Given that the comments never made it into the
compiled code, there
was no space reason to omit comments. There must have been another
reason.
I used to regularly compress sources of various distributions (not UNIX,
but inn, pine, elm, etc) that I compiled, just to save space.
And that was in the early 90's when I could buy a 1GB SCSI drive for
$1000. I can't imagine working off of the early hard drives...
ak