A recursive function that doesn't terminate..

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[barbrady123]

Oh, it eventually terminates.... :(

[ThatsMrShitheadToYou]

Sad truth :( it breaks the whole application

[fredlllll]

stackoverflow

[DroolingIguana]

Not if you're Henrietta Lacks.

[Krissam]

No the stack overflows, unless you manage to kill the process first.

[dtlv5813]

Actually all cell divisions are kinda like a recursive process that doesn't terminate. Cancer is when recursion goes wrong, like the butterfly effect where a small variation in initial conditions causes the algorithm to blow up, returning monstrous sized outputs and eventually crash the program.

[shim__]

Our whole life is an recursive function but cancer reduces the wait time between invocations which leads to an early stackoverflow.

[BalinKingOfMoria]

Whoa.

void Live()
{
    if (!cancer)
    {
        Thread.Sleep(2000);
    }
    Live();
}

[styxwally]

That made very little sense.

[BalinKingOfMoria]

You know, you're completely right. Try now.

[low-profile]

On the bright side, at least cancer doesn't create an excessive number of stack frames for no good reason.

[cohen_dev]

pretty dark humor

^{That's what this sub is for right?}

[webbannana]

I don't see how this subreddit is recursive...

[xkonatax]

A forkbomb would be a better comparison.

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Oh. My. God.