No, in the early stages there is no language attached to my thought processes, though as I mentally interact with the abstract concepts, I generally start to co

No, in the early stages there is no language attached to my thought processes, though as I mentally interact with the abstract concepts, I generally start to concretise into recursive functions. This conception of 'recursive functions' still has no notation attached to it, it's more that I start to decompose my solution (mentally) into cause and effect.