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From: Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 24 Feb 89 21:43:12 GMT
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> 
> One of my favorite ways of defining an infinite loop in a language similar to
> Modula-2 is:
> 
> const HellFreezesOver = false;
> 
> REPEAT
>   stuff
> UNTIL HellFreezesOver;

What this has to do folklore, i don't know, but here's a varient:

#define Death 1
#define Taxes 1

while (Death && Taxes) { stuff }