What exactly is the halting problem?

Question

Whenever people ask about the halting problem as it pertains to programming, people respond with \"If you just add one loop, you\'ve got the halting program and therefore yo

Answer 1

I would suggest to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem, especially http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem#Sketch_of_proof in order to understand why this problem can't be solved in algorithmic way.