Re: terminate applications

["Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@blueyonder.co.uk>]

"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
news:3F1D27CC.6020002@noplace.com...

> ... Other programming languages provide some means of
> program termination (Pascal had a "HALT" instruction
> IIRC...) so its not as if I was dreaming up some wild-eyed
> fanatical scheme from the lunatic fringe. :-)

What I'd like to see is the Halt procedure having a Reset parameter
(Boolean, in), which, when true, would cause the generation of a localised
temporal inversion vortex (LTIV) -- provided the necessary hardware was
attached, naturally -- just sufficient to completely undo the effects of the
program since the moment it was executed.

It would be necessary for the operating system to trap attempts to extend
the LTIV beyond -15 years, so as to eliminate the possibility of the dreaded
ROTM/JD* effect.

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Nick Roberts
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:-)