They always have a place for storing lots of boolean flags in a small amount of space;
Just think if you have 32 flags (for example); You could store them all in one "long integer" and just use up 4 bytes, Now imagine you chose to use a long for each flag (just because the code is easier to maintain - you've now got 128 bytes to deal with.
My background is primarily C/C++ so I was brought up on them so I definately use them in every language I use; but I do agree; newbie programmers tend not to even care - all this memory lying around - who cares?
