Felix Benner schrieb:
> Thomas Ploch schrieb:
>>> 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?
>>>>
>> I rather stay with the metaphysics:
>>
>>
>> #include "metaphysics.h"
>>
>> static metaPower God;
>>
>> universe *makeUniverse(metaPower God)
>> {
>> if (!God) {
>> printf("Oops, no God available at the moment.Try again later!");
>> return NULL;
>> }
>>
>> universe *everything;
>>
>> if (!(everything = malloc(sizeof(universe)))) {
>> God.mood = REALLY_BORED;
>> printf("God has no time to create a universe.");
>> return NULL;
>> } else {
>> return universe;
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Sorry, somehow had to do this. Please slap me (i like it, don't worry)
>> if it's totally stupid
>>
>>
>
> soooo totally stupid! You forgot the main function! (not to mention you
> returned universe instead of everything)
Argh, I need some serious slapping (but I changed everything and
universe, and just forgot to change it all the way through (...good that
I am _not_ God)
> static int main(int argc, char **argv) {
> char *god_name;
> if (argc)
> god_name = argv[1];
> else
> god_name = "YHWH";
> metaPower God = getGodByName(god_name);
> universe *everything = makeUniverse(God);
> while (simulatePhysics(everything));
> return 0;
> }
You forgot to check if God wasn't too bored. ;-)
Thomas
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