Proverbs in code

English proverbs represented as code. If you can guess what they are, I must have made them at least somewhat correct:

if (book.page != book.cover) {
  judge(book);
}

if chickens.state == "hatched" {
  return chickens.count;
}

if (bodyPart.isClass(Hand)) {
  if (bodyPart != self.feeder) {
    self.bite(bodyPart)
  }
}

while true {
};
echo("die");

def understandRecursion():
  understandRecursion()

while (self.proficiency(skill) < masterLevel) {
  self.practice(skill);
}

if count = 2 then
  result := "company"
else if count = 3
  result := "crowd";

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I don't get all of them. :-) But then again, I'm no hardcore programmer.

There's only two I don't get. The "while true{" and the "def understandRecursion()" statements. Any hints?

"In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion".

I have no clue on the "while true{" one, though.

"Old programmers never die, they just GOSUB without RETURN." ? :P

"In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion" - is this an English proverb? I don't remember reading this is any great books of literature! Maybe I shoud read an O'Reilly book!

Wikipedia says it is.

Well, without an exit criteria the recursion goes on forever and you will, as a consequence, never understand recursion :-)

Rasmus and Blindfish: The while true one should be proverb "never say die" (which I had no clue existed until I found it on some websites).

Morten: Hah, true that.