• Danquebec@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Imagine how broken it would be otherwise. The first person to write a while loop in any given language would be the owner of it. Anyone else using the same concept would have to write an increasingly convoluted while loop with extra steps.

    • sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works
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      20 hours ago

      Anyone else using the same concept would have to write an increasingly convoluted while loop with extra steps.

      Sounds like an origin story for recursion.