While For Loops Run

While loops and for loops confuse me, because I don't really see any merit in using for loops. Here's what my teacher, Mr. Stephen (pseudonym), says about the for and while loops. "You use a for loop when you know how many times your program will run ahead of time, and you use the while loop when you have no idea how many times your program needs to run" [citation needed]. Of course, this is also the teacher who encouraged me to "talk to Zolie (pseudonym)" [citation needed], so his advice might not be the most trustworthy. At first, Mr. Stephen's explanation seemed simple, but the more I thought about it, the less useful it seemed. Why not just establish a while loop with a condition that counted the number of times the loop had run? Mr. Stephen's rule now seemed unnecessary. I guess I'll just disobey him, always use while loops, and that'll be fine.

Since I need to fill up half a page, I'll just fill in this space by showing that I know what a for loop is. The syntax for a for loop goes something like this:

for(establish variable; create condition; increment variable)
{
      <insert what the loop does here>
}

This contrasts with a while loop, for which the syntax is:

while(condition)
{
       <insert what the loop does here>
}

The while loop is much cleaner and simpler, and for those reasons, I prefer it over the unwieldy and unnecessarily verbose "for" loop.