From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 30 5:19:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7D9F158A1 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:19:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA22649; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:19:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:19:49 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fortune candidate In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 30 Nov 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > [...] I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write > an infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that > in Ada the typical infinite loop would be normally be terminated by > detonation. > > -- Larry Wall while (!EndOfWorld){ blow_up(); } ? David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message