Comment by IanCal
1 year 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.
1 year 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.
Yeah, 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.