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Discussion on: Challenge: Write a program that never stops

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Halt! 6 kere 9?

This will crash once the stack is full but nice try. :)

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Jessy

Hahaha yeah it totally did crash Chrome when I tried it. I wanted to just post

while(true){}

but that's a little boring.

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Halt! 6 kere 9?

Definitely classic but lacks the humor :)

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Arne Mertz

Use a language that allows optimization of tail recursion then ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Phoebe Goldman

Us cool kids with our tail recursion could write in, for example, Common Lisp:

(defun loop-for-ever ()
  (loop-for-ever))
(loop-for-ever)