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That's the classic "only coder" mindset. Instead of being uncomfortable learning about software architecture, side effects or even pure functions, tries to solve every problem with for and while loops.

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Sir, may I remind you that when you get down to it, your architecture and higher order functions are all made of branching and for and while loops, and branching and for and while loops are all made of goto.

And gotos are made of jump instructions which are made of NAND gates, transistors and silicon. Good abstraction is all about hiding the details that are not essential to the problem at hand.

I wanted to say jump instructions at first, but gotos are more hated and considered harmful in these quarters.

You hide the details but you never forget they’re there, lest they spoil and start smelling really bad.

(Also, apparently the MOV instruction on amd64 gives you Turing completeness as proved by that crazy compiler, so gotos may be made of MOVs sometimes, but meh)

A particular implementation might use those things, and I will meet it on its terms when I need to. But that's a mechanical convenience, nothing more. My top-level code is written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

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