I believe you should be able to sort~of simulate higher level languages on the editor level. Writing c = a * b could just be a representation for the large blob

I believe you should be able to sort~of simulate higher level languages on the editor level. Writing c = a * b could just be a representation for the large blob of code or subroutine.* What is particularly funny about your example is that 40 years later you still cant do multiplication or addition in js. You have to install packages (that are multiple computers in size!) after you make up your mind which of the 20+ different modules (read: "dependencies") has the right kind of multiplication for you! I'm not bitter, it's objectively ridiculous :) * it should actually be c = a × b Without the asterix, we did actually have arithmetic reasonably standardized before IT de-standardized it.