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I really don't think that's the definition of a program. > You want it to run until you tell it to stop, No? Many programs I don't want to run until I tell th
by IanCal 2y ago
I really don't think that's the definition of a program.
> You want it to run until you tell it to stop,
No? Many programs I don't want to run until I tell them to stop.
Even then, this reduces it to irrelevance.
- withinboredom 2y agoYeah, sorry, I wasn’t clear: not the user, the programmer. This is true for almost all programs. Even a simple “print hello world” involves at least one intentional infinite loop: sending bytes to the buffer. The buffer could remain full forever.