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All programming is just if statements. That doesn't mean systems can't be complex.

If you're creative you can get away without conditional branches: http://www.jucs.org/jucs_2_11/conditional_branching_is_not/R...

Not true; if the conditional branch goes backward then it's a (possibly do-) while statement. Also subroutine calls.

Counternitpick: Those subrouting calls and while statements are compiled to conditional jmps. If you squint your eyes it's just a fancy 'if'.

"It's no use, @a1369209993 - it's IF statements all the way down!"

Apologies to William James' apocryphal quote.