That is not bad intuition. Another analogy is that coding DNA is like all the function calls - the parts of the code that change data. Non coding DNA is like

That is not bad intuition. Another analogy is that coding DNA is like all the function calls - the parts of the code that change data. Non coding DNA is like the all the flow control, conditionals, constants, etc. They don’t directly operate on the data, but have a huge impact on how the program behaves given some input.