a while back i said that i like small programs that waste neither space nor cpu cycles. from the file on stupid computer tricks comes the extreme case: the smallest possible linux program that actually does something.
the exercise documented in this article (updated for 2009) is purely academic, but it demonstrates some uncommon ingenuity, and i think that's cool. and this recent blog post is moving along the same lines: programming in c with no cumbersome libraries. not really practical for large projects where the standard library accounts for a negligible part of program size and the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks, but still this is an interesting effort. it also caused me to dig out my old assembly language books. i think i'm going to write some tutorials on intel assembler over the next few months. we'll look at making programs for dos and linux.
aww, c'mon! it'll be fun!
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