The answer
By default, yes. However, control flow statements like loops, conditionals, and function calls force the execution path to branch, jump, or repeat.
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Control flow refers to the order in which individual statements, instructions, or function calls are executed or evaluated in a program.
The program pauses its current line, saves its location on the call stack, jumps to execute the function, and then returns to the saved location once done.
An infinite loop never meets its exit condition. The CPU gets trapped repeating the same code forever, causing the program to freeze or crash.
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