> I’d have to say BASIC for the 8080, because of the effect it’s had, and because of how appropriate it was at the time, and because we managed to get it so small.<p>My first thought was "ah, it's nice that he places such an emphasis on simplicity and elegance", and then I realized that he literally means <i>small</i>, as in, <i>takes up fewer bytes</i>. It's so strange to think about optimizing memory footprint on the level of characters of code.