A modest proposal

[Walter Bright]

On 1/24/2012 2:17 AM, k wrote:
> Couldn't agree more. I've even been forced to increase the scrollback buffer
> of my IRC client in order to not miss conversation pieces while just fetching
> coffee, which of course uses up more RAM, not to say the extra tear on my
> scroll wheel isn't concerning too. I'm very tempted to file a bug that D has
> a technical memory leak, indirectly, but still, it's a very real problem. I
> see no other way of fixing this except write-locking the git repos, right?
> Could anyone fix this? I guess a temporary workaround could be if poeple used
> shorter names for the bugs. Like instead of "(ice) glue.c (67) :  assert
> failed with exit code 78" perhaps just "assrt fail lol". Or hey, perhaps even
> insert some conversation starters, like "assrt fail, btw, a developer walked
> into a foo *eelface*", that would be really great for those awkward silent
> moments on the IRC. Let's work together on this people! okthxbye!

A friend of mine, Hal Finney, once wrote a Basic interpreter for an embedded 
system. He was incredibly short on ROM, and used every trick to stuff that Basic 
interpreter in. One way to reduce size was to use one error message for every 
error; he chose:

    EH?

Only 3 bytes! We all thought it was awesome. His customer hated it, though.