Distribution quote of the week

No. Your lighter machine part comes with all the scurf attached such that you can't remove it. The amount of crud and cruft modern programs carry that comes along as part of the toolkit is amazing. Your typical embedded engineer could probably write the program using our modern toolkits, then reduce its size 10- or even 100-fold by aggressive stripping of unused code. Your normal programmer probably wouldn't even know where to start doing that ...

Cheers,
Wol