Dean, I think we're arguing an order of magnitude. Word's "Save as HTML" bloat adds unneeded bloat. Its adds open and close tags right next to one another. It'll fill in a file with whitespace characters and whitespace escapes. And its a pain in the ass to maintain unless you keep the word docs around and do it all again. And this doesn't even scratch the surface of the unnecessary stuff Word does in its HTML generation.
Where as a high level language may include significantly more lines of compiled binary, more often those instructions are not entirely useless. They add some level of security, sanity checking, exception handling, abstraction, etc so that a simple instruction doesn't crash the whole system.
And for me, the tradeoff for coding in higher level languages is a completely acceptable solution compared to the unacceptable way Word makes webpages. They aren't analogous in my mind.
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