while is bad

Just thought I'd warn you, don't use while(1)
It is INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS

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>>3
A question for the ages. The “n + ½” loop pattern was recognized as early as 1967, see Wirth's “On certain basic concepts of programming languages”¹ and Knuth's “Structured Programming with Goto Statements”². The reason one of the suggested solutions wasn't broadly adopted is probably that existing syntax like break and sequencing in the condition is not that bad.

¹ ftp://db.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/67/65/CS-TR-67-65.pdf
² http://pplab.snu.ac.kr/courses/adv_pl05/papers/p261-knuth.pdf