Can a simple a==b 'hang' in and endless loop?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-01-19, Terry Hancock <hancock at anansispaceworks.com> wrote:

> It is precisely this power that makes C such a dangerous
> language to program in -- it's what makes it so easy to crash
> your program, any other program running on the same machine,

Nonsense.  Under Windows 3.0 that may be true, but on any real
OS, you can't "crash any other program running on the same
machien" in C, assembly, Python, or Lisp.

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