Fall of Roman Empire

[John Machin]

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.

Cheers,
John