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Programming humour
Apr 3, 2022 10:09 AM
Zanshi96
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Programming humour
Howfuckinhardisittogetausername
Ha !
imgurianitarian
JackInTheB0x
See: loop, infinite.
uziel144
Thatsmykenku
God I’ve been stuck in this loop for almost 72 hours. I’m on the toilet, and I can’t feel my legs anymore!
BusterBates
An old programming manual I had also did this one…. Recursive: See recursive.
tempmike
still better than the 5e core rulebook indexes
darckdragon
How about a finite loop?
thricebakedxyz
rojelioenescabeche
Good one.
sgaduuw
Now look up 'recursion'
NoTurtles
Should end at stack overflow (the error not the website)
hisdudenesselduderino
Would have been better is it said "see loop" then when you went to loop it said "see infinite loop"
Neurisko
Was going to post, I've actually seen it that way before in an old programming book. Turbo C++ maybe? I don't remember, it's been years.
kangaroofountain7
The red circle is also an infinite loop
MissSpelledTattoo
⭕ ∞
NineLongWall
Isn’t that the LaTeX book by Leslie Lamport?
JustKote
Looks like it
InnocentIntentionsTurnedBad
Rectangular blob of...
thatwoodguy
Recursion : See Recursion.
samuelwestphalia
This gives happy flashbacks to trying to parse "House of Leaves" and all of its recursive footnotes :)
heteroscedastic
Someone's into latex I see.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
fits well with \sadomasochism
RoloTonyBrown
DeadWhiteMale
"ink, rectangular blob of"
amp99
ArcanisTheOmnipotent
Recursion is when something happens recursively
GerardEngelage
Also works in Dutch, thanks!
2ndplaceisasetofsteakknives
Recursion- see 'infinite loop'
2ndplaceisasetofsteakknives
Infinite loop- see 'recursion'
theshinobi23
The recursion of 2 mirrors being parallel would create a sequence of slightly smaller identical images. Infinite loop is the same each time.
quzar
Each time you click the link, you are progressing into a new context that is a step further from the original search.
3Davideo
Technically, the loop of two parallel mirrors isn't *quite* infinite, as a small amount of light is absorbed by the glass on each pass. >
3Davideo
> This is why the reflections get a slight bluish tint as they go deeper.
highhiedyin
Well SOMEONE read Gödel, Escher, Bach
3Davideo
Oh yeah, my dad had that book, I randomly thumbed through it. Better than those boring-ass theology books.
amp99
The computer science definition is more germane (image above isn't mine): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion#In_computer_science
theshinobi23
Repeats in smaller and smaller versions of the input until it reaches the base case. Seems the same as the mirror analogy to me.
amp99
"Repeats in smaller and smaller versions of the input until it reaches the base case." <--- Not necessarily; that's one possibility. 1/x
amp99
Recursion can be used to calculate a sequence of numbers (e.g. Fibonacci), and you can easily write infinite loops recursively. 2/2
amp99
Also, in the spirit of pedantry, your assertion that "Infinite loop is the same each time." isn't correct, since it's possible to... 1/x
amp99
write an infinite loop such that not only are variables altered within the loop, but that a different path can be taken during... 2/x