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From: mikel@codas.UUCP (Mikel Manitius)
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Subject: Re: Forever
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 22:40:59 EDT
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> /* Old business department. Doug Gwyn sez:
> > I think this illustrates one of the potential problems with
> > hiding the actual language underneath definitions.  If the
> > loop REALLY continues "for ever", then it is probably not a
> > good algorithm.
> 
> There are *lots* of `forever' type loops. How about process
> control applications, or communication boxes? These processes
> *never* exit (they are forcibly shutdown by pulling the plug,
> rebooting, or `exit' somewhere in a called funxion).

This reminds me of something a known Labs mind pointed out to me once:

There is no such thing as an "infinite loop" in programming,
only "indefninite loop".
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