Re: Fall of Roman Empire
Dec 20, 10:36 am, Felix Benner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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;
> }
This won't work if there are no command-line arguments. You mean if
(argc > 1).
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Re: Fall of Roman Empire
"Thomas Ploch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > People are working hard on reverse-engineering it though. I hope no one > > slaps them with a DMCA-style lawsuit ... > > > > Tim Delaney > > I heard Steve Ballmer recently made an offer to the pope for purchasing > the license for an apple and an egg (Apfel und Ei). > LOL! For the sake of those unfortunates who have no grounding in the Germanic Languages - when you buy something for "an apple and an egg" or in Afrikaans an "apple and an onion" - you are getting it excessively cheaply... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Fall of Roman Empire
Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > >> 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. > > People are working hard on reverse-engineering it though. I hope no one > slaps them with a DMCA-style lawsuit ... > > Tim Delaney I heard Steve Ballmer recently made an offer to the pope for purchasing the license for an apple and an egg (Apfel und Ei). Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Fall of Roman Empire
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > 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. People are working hard on reverse-engineering it though. I hope no one slaps them with a DMCA-style lawsuit ... Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Fall of Roman Empire
"Thomas Ploch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Fall of Roman Empire
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"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 | >> [ ... ] 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? Pretty much. Except they would argue that the child process (Byzantium) never exec'd. -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ |-- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Fall of Roman Empire
Felix Benner schrieb:
>> Sorry, somehow had to do this. Please slap me (i like it, don't worry)
>> if it's totally stupid
>>
>>
>
> s totally stupid! You forgot the main function! (not to mention you
> returned universe instead of everything)
>
> 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;
> }
Well, I'd expect God to be more clever as to do it that way.
Could you imagine toying around with your universe in C?
No, it must have been
static PyObject *
create_universe(char *god_name) {
PyObject *universe;
universe = PyObject_New(universetype, PyUniverse_Type);
if (!universe) {
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_CreationError,
"Out of spacetime, or BDFL is too busy hacking "
"on web-based collaboration tools");
return NULL;
}
universe->un_god = PyGod_FromName(god_name);
universe->un_size = 0;
universe->un_expand_rate = COSMOLOGICAL_CONSTANT;
return universe;
}
Georg
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Re: Fall of Roman Empire
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
>>
>>
>
> s 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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Re: Fall of Roman Empire
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
>
>
s totally stupid! You forgot the main function! (not to mention you
returned universe instead of everything)
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;
}
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Re: Fall of Roman Empire
> 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
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Re: Fall of Roman Empire
On 12/20/06, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "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? > According to the C standard (16AD version), access past the end of an imperial era results in undefined behavior. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Fall of Roman Empire
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
Re: Fall of Roman Empire
"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
