"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
