Here is another example of not needing individual gates in Verilog & VHDL.
This example is a 3-bit binary to 7 segment display circuit. You should be very experienced with this circuit by now. While we could build the circuit using AND, OR, and NOT Gates, this wouldn't be efficient in Verilog/VHDL. Instead we could just use your programming background to program it in a Hardware Description Language.
An example of a 3-bit to 7 segment display circuit is given below in both Verilog and VHDL