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Fall of Roman Empire

Hendrik van Rooyen mail at microcorp.co.za
Thu Dec 21 01:04:34 EST 2006 
"Thomas Ploch" <Thomas.Ploch at gmx.net> wrote:


> Ben Finney schrieb:
> > "John Machin" <sjmachin at lexicon.net> writes:
> > 
> >> Ben Finney wrote:
> >>
> >>>  \      "...one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was |
> >>>   `\        that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful |
> >>> _o__)               termination of their C programs."  -- Robert Firth |
> >> An amusing .sig, but it doesn't address the root cause: As they had no
> >> way of testing for the end of a string, in many cases successful
> >> termination of their C programs would have been unlikely.
> > 
> > Yet historically proven: the 'imperium' process they were running
> > terminated many centuries ago.
> > 
> > Or did it fork and exec a different process?
> > 
> 
> And what about the C-Programs running in the middle of the sun or earth
> making them spinning around or having nuclear reactions controlled. I
> hope they won't terminate in the near future with exit status != 0

naaah - you don't have to worry - for real control He uses assembler.
with jump statements.
so the loops are closed.

Unfortunately its not open source.  Yet.

- Hendrik
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