Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns Subject: Decline of the Romans From: rsalz@pineapple.bbn.com (Rich Salz) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:20:01 PDT URL: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/89q1/romans.168.html

(From Mark Brader's <msb@sq.com> .signature)

... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

-- Robert Firth