People are getting caught up on the loops thing. All I meant was in my line of work I often end up with many special cases of general processes. Writing a loop

People are getting caught up on the loops thing. All I meant was in my line of work I often end up with many special cases of general processes. Writing a loop prematurely always bites me - I end up writing control flow for handling the one-offs, it somehow always becomes more obtuse than just listing things out literally.