Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns
Subject: Decline of the Romans
From: rsalz@pineapple.bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:20:00 PDT

(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