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Are all significant computer programs built on loops/recursion?

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Are all significant computer programs built on loops/recursion?
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>>53770847
>loops
Yes
>recursion
Nothing mission critical
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I would pay up to $30,000 for Stallman's soiled kigurumi
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>Are all significant computer programs built on if-statements?
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>are all significant computer programs built on conditional goto statements?
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>>53770847
no, they run top to bottom. more complex behavior relies on the program being copy pasted.
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Are all significant computer programs built on moving things between registers?
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>>53770847
No, they all use goto
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loops are recursive functions....
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are all programs built with data structures?
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>>53770847
Loops are jump commands. When you hit the "bottom" of a loop, and the control structure evaluates to "loop again" the program jumps to the address that is the "top" of the loop.
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>>53772919
it's all GOTOs when u get down to asm
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A program that doesn't have branching and loops could probably just be done by hand in the first place.

Technically a "loop" is a high level concept. At the assembly/hardware level there's no such thing. Assembly uses jump statements to physically jump backward or forward to the next instruction. There are special registers that the jump statement checks itself against and if the register is set up in the right way then it jumps to one place otherwise it just skips the instruction.
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