Cute — though the visual gag fits a little better with infinite recursion that infinite loop.
Recursion isn’t the same as as infinite loop
I don’t get your point. Just because the image gets repeated in the 4th panel doesn’t mean its recursion. It can be an infinite while loop with a state.
Now that I think about it, a recursion without a base/break condition is just an infinite loop with a state
Ackshually, the meme is encoded using progressively smaller images nested into the fourth panel of the comic. Each fourth panel is effectively a nested function call to the original comic procedure, which more closely represents recursion than an infinite loop.
For an infinite loop, one might instead lay out the 3 unique panels horizontally, and just memcpy them into rows below, creating a table. That’s a regression in humor, but it’d fix the bug.
So I agree with @ryannathans@aussie.zone’s review; The joke is about infinite loops, but the visual gag is about recursion.
Lol that’s exactly how I saw it as well. Recursive gets those nesting dolls look in my head, loops are the same size but repeated, even if infinite. Yes even if the code is almost the same since you can write a loop recursively anyways (okay haven’t tested but seems like it’d work mostly fine but not always as clean).
I think the beauty of it is that the joke can be amusing in multiple ways. Those are the best jokes to me, cause I can think of different ways the next time I see them.
Long ago, I made a four line recursive HTML that did this with frames. Browsers didn’t have protection against that at the time, so if you opened it and let it run, your machine would lock up.
Very much needed for embedded systems, but I’m more of a
for (;;)guy myself!What language is this?
It’s C, but the unusual look of having two semicolons is the reason why I prefer it over
while (True). It feels more like “here is the weird part”.Gotcha, thank you. I mostly code in bash or python.
Well…
for ((;;)) do # stuff done
Imagine seriously using
break… when I was young we had abreak, it’s calledSIGKILL. And we liked it this way!A billion years ago, I worked for a place that was using Cold Fusion.
There was this one project that had a loop with a break condition, but the devs kept accidentally putting errors in the break logic. The project was pretty processor intensive. I got calls 5-6 times a day to reset the CF server because stopping the HTML page wouldn’t do #$%^
Can you guys please just add a second break module so you can just load another page and cause the project to abort? hell make it dump a file in /tmp, whatever…
CPU temp will be my break statement.
The “new” thermal throttling functionality in Intel Pentium processors will break your
breakfunctionality.
