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Early variants simply "passed by reference" by virtue of not having local variables or functions at all. A "function" would be implemented by the programmer as
by boomlinde 12y ago
Early variants simply "passed by reference" by virtue of not having local variables or functions at all. A "function" would be implemented by the programmer as a subroutine that used a specific set of the global variables available for its input and output values.