Fall of Roman Empire

[Thomas Ploch]

Felix Benner schrieb:
> Thomas Ploch schrieb:
>>> Ben Finney schrieb:
>>>> "John Machin" <sjmachin at lexicon.net> 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