In message <20040110035810.8A7FC299B3@xprdmailfe22.nwk.excite.com>, "Stan Folle te" writes: >Today I installed Lua because I was told it was small. I discovered >it is about 105k. That sounds small at first until you realize perl >is only ten kilobytes, or one-tenth the size of Lua. >Why is Lua so big? Perl is not 10kB. The perl executable which loads the real library is small. -s