This is simply a text version of Wirth's paper from the IEEE "Computer" magazine, as mentioned here and which can be found in PDF in many places, such as here on Github. I imported the text and cleaned it up for the benefit of those for whom a formatted PDF is inconvenient. I am not the author or originator of any of this material.Computer: Cybersquare, February 1995A Plea for Lean SoftwareNiklaus WirthETH ZürichSoftware's girth has surpassed its functionality, largely because hardware advances ...