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Brilliant title.
"Acquiring the concept of "flow of control" is what makes the difference between a programmer and a non-programmer and if you think it's trivial and obvious then this is simply because you made the transition some time ago.
If you want a demonstration that it is far from obvious just try to teach programming to someone who hasn't encountered the idea before in any other shape or form. You can't help but pity their undeveloped sense of what follows what and how they ever manage to follow or give any coherent instructions is a mystery. But they do, nearly always, make the transition and acquire the core concept of programming."
The Goto, Spaghetti and the Velociraptor
"Acquiring the concept of "flow of control" is what makes the difference between a programmer and a non-programmer and if you think it's trivial and obvious then this is simply because you made the transition some time ago.
If you want a demonstration that it is far from obvious just try to teach programming to someone who hasn't encountered the idea before in any other shape or form. You can't help but pity their undeveloped sense of what follows what and how they ever manage to follow or give any coherent instructions is a mystery. But they do, nearly always, make the transition and acquire the core concept of programming."
The Goto, Spaghetti and the Velociraptor