Fall of Roman Empire

[Thomas Ploch]

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?
> 

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