I was 10 or 11 years old. It also started with BASIC and loved it! I was an avid fan of Qbasic until I got to college and understood why complicated languages like C or C++ matters.

We don't follow good coding practices to show others! We follow those for our own sake. He is probably a Senior dev by accident. You may write such crappy code if you are sure you will never ever have to maintain any part of it. But remember God is watching u. :)

Where is that sales guy now!?

I have used while(true) but only in some kind of Listener threads.