Richard Bartle personal blog
How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999)
As a rule, "sophisticated" progrmming is pretty boring - optimizing the unnecessary to speed up the uninteresting. Here, however, is an incredibly sophisticated package intended for fun and games. The more you know about software, the more astounded you will become as you read this.
- Points
- 148
- HN comments
- 74
- Submissions
- 2
- Cited by
- 4 commenters
Systems & PerformanceSoftware Engineering2018
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2018 | How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999) by tosh | 148 | 35 |
| Oct 13, 2023 | How to fit a large program into a small machine (1980) by peter_d_sherman | 125 | 39 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 4 different people, from Aug 2018 to Apr 2025.
Most recent:
- flonkyflonk · Apr 14, 2025
- PaulHoule · Jan 7, 2023
- dwheeler · Dec 23, 2019
- DerekL · Aug 25, 2018
