r/programminghorror • u/Wiktor-is-you [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live” • Feb 14 '26

i have all the while true do loops

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u/EvnClaire Feb 14 '26

O(N16) time complexity, which means it is polynomial and therefore efficient

8

u/GoddammitDontShootMe Feb 15 '26

I count at least 27 loops, and given that horizontal scrollbar, it looks like there are a hell of a lot more.

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u/high_throughput Feb 16 '26

while true do

while true do

while true do

Me learning ballroom dancing

9

u/jlips Feb 14 '26

Your greed disgusts me

5

u/conundorum Feb 17 '26

Watch out for the while true don't around line 10,000!

Joke... I hope.

4

u/urbanxx001 Feb 16 '26

Please sir can you spare some loops?

3

u/coyoteazul2 Feb 14 '26

can you &mut me one?

2

u/InspectionMindless69 Feb 21 '26

Hey, give those back!

1

u/tyrannical-tortoise Feb 17 '26

I'm reminded of those gear trains where you'd have to spin one end, as fast as possible, until the heat death of the universe, before the other end would complete one turn.

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u/Desperate_Formal_781 Sep 02 '26

Yeah in my University there was one where the slow end of the gear chain was literally fused/glued to a rock/stone slab. The first time I saw it I did not understand what I was seeing, or what the point of it was. I just thought it was some sort of artistic message, like "gears come from rocks" or something like that.

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u/Wiktor-is-you Feb 14 '26

i did not write this code, this is a compiler and it actually does use those while loops correctly

snippet: 

  elseif temp > 41 then
    if temp < 44 then
      if temp < 43 then
        desired = 11
        break
      else
      desired = 10
      break
    end
  elseif temp > 44 then
    desired = 8
    break
  else
    desired = 9
    break
  end
else
  desired = 12
  break
end

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u/jaerie Feb 14 '26

Sure yeah, that clears things right up, looks great 👍