Challenge: Write a program that never stops

Write an endless loop, write some confusing gotos...

The rules are simple: Write a program that never stops. Language: Any. Try to keep it short and confusing :D

Here is an example:

for(i=0; i<10; i++){
    for(j=0; i<10; j++){
        System.out.println("Blubb.");
    }
}

Post your funny, creative solutions below.

Comments

[Parth Parikh]

Welcome to Verilog.

module tb();
    always $display("You think I will stop? Think again!");
endmodule;

[Karn Saheb]

My god, this brings back memories that I've been trying to compartmentalize. :'(

[Arne Mertz]

C++

#define ever ;;
int main() {
  for(ever);
}

int main() {
    for (unsigned i = 341; i > 0; --i) {
        printf("%u\n", i--);
    }
}

int main() {
    float f = 1.0f;
    while (f < 16777218.2f) {
        printf("%f\n", f);
        f += 1;
    }
}

assembler

main:
.L2
  jmp .L2

C

int main(void) {
    int b=0, a[] = {0,1};
    while (b != (!b)[a]) {
        printf("%i\n", b=!a[b]);
    }
}

int main(void) {
  https://dev.to
  goto https;
}

[Florian Rohrer]

I really like the last one. Defining a label to a comment - nice :D

[Halt! 6 kere 9?]

This is far the best 👍

[raja sudhan]

very nice friend!!

[Florian Rohrer]

C

// 1
int i = 0;
while(i < 10)
{
    if(i = 5)
        printf("i is 5!");
    i++;
}
// 2
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++);
{
    printf("hello");
}
// 3
for(int i = 1; i < 11, i++;)
{
    printf("hello");
}

[Ryan Palo]

Ruby:

loop {:D}

[Florian Rohrer]

This gotta be the happiest loop, I've ever seen.

[Miff]

Brainfuck, I guess.

+[]

[David Muckle]

:(){:|:&};:

10 PRINT "HELLO!"
20 GOTO 10

Always gotta have the classics.

[Perry Ahern]

Ah, BASIC with manually typed line numbers and GOTO... If only the screenshot were monochromatic green or amber it would be truly classic.

[David Muckle]

I can do that if you'd like... dev.to/dvdmuckle/hooking-up-a-vt42... :)

[Perry Ahern]

That'd be cool to see, but it'd never replace my memories of flickering Commodore PET screens from days of yore. Cool write up though, saving that to read later.

[Ignacio Losiggio]

A classical example :P

(λx.x x)(λx.x x)

Or in ES2015

(a=>a(a))(a=>a(a))

[Jessy]

function a(){
  a();
}

a();

Endless recursivity!

[Halt! 6 kere 9?]

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

[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.

[Halt! 6 kere 9?]

Definitely classic but lacks the humor :)

[Arne Mertz]

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

[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)

[Daniel Escoz]

Javascript (ES6):

const zero = () => Promise.resolve(0).then(zero);
zero().then(result => console.log('this does not print a zero:', result));

Technically ends because .then run on the next tick, but it permanently blocks the JS event loop (I think).

(It might eat your RAM)

[michie1]

while(1){}

[Nigel Kirby]

2 JS classics

let a = 1
while(a !== '1')
    console.log('sup')

let a = 0.1 * 0.2
while(a !== .02)
    console.log('sup')

[Gary Marriott]

Erlang:

loop() ->
do:someVitalTask(),
loop().


[eminemence]

Shell command :
yes

[Meghan (she/her)]

Javascript

setInterval(function() {}, 1);

[Paula]

This post is so dangerous oh my god