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Scientists Determine Structure of 1918 Flu Virus

Elusive_Cure writes "NIMR scientists have solved an 85-year old riddle by determining the structure of the flu virus which jumped from birds to humans in 1918 killing more than 20 million people worldwide. This is the same virus that took more lives than World War I and became the largest and deadliest influenza outbreak in recorded history."

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  1. Re:I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    main isn't void, it's int. You can get away with the lack of parameters, but declaring the return value void is liable to lead your program to return random stati, if it ever quits, which it will not.

    The other thing you might want to do is lose the recursion and just go for a plain old for(;;) loop. In its present form, the program will run out of stack space and crash. Finally, fputs() is more efficient than printf, and you should use parens (not Bruce Perens though!) around the function argument.

    Try this instead:

    #include <stdio.h>

    int main()
    {
    for(;;)
    fputs("Jorkapp is a Programmer", stdout);

    return 0;
    }
  2. MODERATION ABUSE!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't mod me down, mod Jorkapp down, it's his signature.