> No. Under the hood the computer is doing conditional jumps. And yeah, those are hidden from you. :)

Of course my apologies. I was more thinking about in the language it's written in (C for some of it?). But yes at the assembly level.

It took me a while to get my head around it for J (array language written in C), which under the hood must be using a loop but you don't explicitly loop in array languages.