Gene's Blog

A poem on software bloat

poetry, programming

Bloat is real, bloat is fake.
A giraffe has four stomachs compartments.

Bloat is palpable, bloat is abstract.
A 64 KB binary is not bloat.

01000010 01101100 01101111 01100001 01110100
is more less than
42 6C 6F 61 74.

Bloat is unbearable, bloat is liberating.
This is not bloat.