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The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.
@foone “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
@happydisciple @foone @jtlg On the other hand, their successor to C had built in build&test automation.
(Oh dear, just drag me out back and put me out of my misery for this one, it’s soooo bad)