Visual Basic (where many people didn't really know what variables were) existed ...

rsynnott on May 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: I don't know how CPUs work so I simulated one in c...

Visual Basic (where many people didn't really know what variables were) existed 28 years ago. And it wasn't the first thing like that, by any means. Even 50 years ago, well, things like COBOL and MUMPS were fairly divorced from the details.