one of the few mean things that a programmer will encounter is an infinite loop. techies get a kick out of it so much so that some big tech companies name their street addresses after them. so what’s the obsessions with them? for the untrained reader, infinite loops are when program sequences get stuck between two points. they repetitively go from a to z and then back to a. many say that a few lines of code represent a sequence of events. each event is followed by another. so what happens when these loops are coded in? they are never intentional, but they still keep resurfacing, making programers lives hell.

perhaps life in some ways is also a badly written piece of code. from time to time an infinite loop is coded in. these loops are hard to detect. they slowly eat away at all resources till there is a complete system crash. can you find a loop you’re stuck in? how would you even know you’re in one?