An important language in my younger years, since many Atari System 2 games (using the T-11 "PDP-on-a-chip") were written in it.
Variables were pointers and you could dereference with a dot. Another step towards writing what you mean.
There's even a compiler for it https://github.com/sergev/bliss-compiler
A very notable implementation in BLISS was the VAX/VMS operating system.