[NBLUG/talk] Invention of the Unary Number System

ME dugan at passwall.com
Mon May 19 21:06:01 PDT 2003


> On Mon, 19 May 2003, ME wrote:
> [snip]
>> Of course, you might then ask, "how would they specify a problem?" Oh!
>> That is simple. They can just throw exceptions. ;-)
> [snip]
>
> C doesn't have exceptions.

That's ok. The Roman Empire did not have C, but they had exceptions...
They also had interrupts. Brutus "interrupted" Cesear and only did it as
an exception to his normal ethics.

I think the Roman Empire fell because they had Windows and Gates, but no
Linux.



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