I don't even know what to say.

Yeah i have this 5000 rows of data to populate. Lets copy paste the print code that many times, because we can.

I ain't copy/pasting the same code block 1.5 million times. You sir "Mr loopless" can go do that for me and maintain it too.

I once worked with a guy that I asked to do some very basic load testing just to get a rough idea of what his code could handle.

He wrote a piece of node.js to send a request once per second. He then copy pasted it 450 times into a file as his load test.

I asked him how did he plan on increasing or decreasing the number of requests. And he said he’d either delete a few of them or copy paste more in.

I was speechless

@practiseSafeHex ouch, like actual physical pain in my chest from reading that...

I think I would sit down for a couple of minutes to take that in...

@practiseSafeHex I would have asked him to change the requests a few times.

♡ "Hey, could you reduce the time between requests to half a second?"
♡ "Hey, could you change the data you're sending?"
♡ "Hey, send a thousand in ten seconds; let's try that."
♡ "Let's let this run all night for a durability test. Have it run for 10 hours and we'll check on it in the morning. 10 requests a second should do nicely."

If he didn't get it by then...

The question is fair if posed by someone taking Programming 101.
However the real question is: "How are loops more expressive than normal code?"
And if you think that it's because they're more convenient I'm sorry but you're wrong. A language without loops is not Turing-complete, there are problems that require loops to be solved.