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  • \$\begingroup\$ Naive idea: can you make the program call itself instead of using a while loop, and would that be shorter? \$\endgroup\$ Commented Oct 30, 2015 at 12:31
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Mauris the while loop is 3 tokens, while a program name is longer usually \$\endgroup\$ Commented Oct 30, 2015 at 20:03
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Mauris The While loop is actually 4 bytes, and it's possible to recurse in 3, but the stack runs out very quickly, after less than 300 calls. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Oct 31, 2015 at 0:24
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Lembik Because you're fine with [codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/62203/39328], I won't change this to be smoother. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Oct 31, 2015 at 15:56