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Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by pjscott on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @10:55PM (#3105847)
Considering the tragic nature of the situation, the exit status should be nonzero.

    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main(void) {
        printf("goodbye, world\n");
        return 1;
    }
Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by phillco on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:48PM (#3105978)
What if he died peacefully?

    return 0;
Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by pjscott on Thursday October 13, 2011 @01:02AM (#3106165)
Dying peacefully is still dying.

    return 1;
Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by gamache on Thursday October 13, 2011 @07:27AM (#3106853)
All things die, and I consider him successful.

  return 0;
Re:Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died by bootload on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @11:47PM (#3105976)
"... the exit status should be nonzero. .."

true but it's from P7, "C progamming language", pure K&R.