The main one I use regularly with this 'feature' is a shell. I'd imagine it's where Perl got the idea from. In reality, function arguments are an abstraction.

The main one I use regularly with this 'feature' is a shell. I'd imagine it's where Perl got the idea from. In reality, function arguments are an abstraction. You push your arguments onto a stack and read them off that stack. It's just that so many modern languages have that abstraction that we forget how it works underneath.