I recently rediscovered (lying around on my disk) a bunch of Free Pascal[0] programs that I wrote and compiled in 1999. The executables are all statically linked and still run just fine on my current Linux system. The simple &quot;hello world&quot;-eque ones take up just tens of kilobytes of space.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freepascal.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freepascal.org&#x2F;</a>