That's an example of what I meant by "cultural dialect": I learned C in the context of the Unix sources so for(;;) was the canonical way to make an infinite loop. People who came from other "cultures" (e.g. Pascal, like many Mac programmers) used loop constructs common to them.

And it's not like I don't use 'while' -- in a bash script it looks normal to me -- it's just I would never even think to use one in C or C++. And when I read it it looks weird to me.