Re: Thought this was interesting

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <oleh@vlinux.voxelvision.no>]

Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

<snip>

> Apropos of this, if you have access to a Windows system,
> try running the following simple program there. Make sure
> to save all important work first! It just prints out a
> string over and over again. It couldn't do anything bad,
> could it? Especially not on WinNT or WIn2K, right?
> Especially if you have no special privileges, right? :-)
> 
> with text_io; use text_io;
> with ada.characters.latin_1; use ada.characters.latin_1;
> procedure crash is
> begin
>    loop
>      put("Hung up!" & HT & BS & BS & BS & BS & BS & BS);
>    end loop;
> end;

Bizarre behaviour indeed. What puzzles me is that I attempted briefly
to write an equivalent C program, and it did not give the same
results. Any idea of what's so special about text_io?