Ben Finney schrieb: > "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? >
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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
