Any Perl-Tk program is an infinite loop, other here have mentioned other programs that have similar properties. But I draw a line between programs that are infinite on purpose and those that are simply broken.

Best way to tell the difference? If you need to hit Control-C or use kill, pskill Xkill or Task Manager, or a similar utility to stop your program, that may be a "bad" infinite loop. Take perl Tk for example, Your "infinite" loop is listening for events, and this allows you to code a proper exit or even a shutdown sequence. That way you can close your filehandles database handles etc. Your program could listen for events or other input to figure out when to exit.

In reply to Re: infinite loops == bad? by thunders
in thread infinite loops == bad? by BUU

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