"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? -- \ "I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. | `\ There's a knob called 'brightness' but it doesn't work." -- | _o__) Eugene P. Gallagher | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list