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Programming Practices are the commonly or not so commonly used practices in development of software. These can include things like Agile Development, Kanban, Coding shortcuts, etc.

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while(true) and loop-breaking - anti-pattern?

while(true) and break is a common idiom. It's the canonical way to implement mid-exit loops in C-like languages. Adding a variable to store the exit condition and an if() around the second half of the …
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How to deal with tautology in comments?

Comments should describe the code, not duplicate it. This header comment just duplicates. Leave it out.
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