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I think you missed the obvious examples of content-creation applications like Word or Photoshop, where you could interrupt an infinite loop, save progress, then restart.


I didn't miss them. I think those will be much harder to reliably interrupt loops, especially around file I/O. That infinite loop was caused by bad state and those programs (currently) don't handle bad state well.




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