what you call "bloat" is near the bottom of the list of the problems with GNU
*nod* that's just stupid misclassification. But there are historical reasons, e.g. GNU grep getting 100x slower in UTF8 locales.
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the typical pro-"clean"-software person argument then goes like "let's abandon UTF-8, *handwaving* it's not unix enough"
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before I let you destroy something, you must tell me why it is there.
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Chesterton's Fence should definitely be more widely known in software engineering
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