Fall of Roman Empire

[Ben Finney]

"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 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