fundamental mental block in the way we do programming

Take a typical software thats being developed, most of them are to do with data structures how to sync them up, how to efficiently sort them up, query them, convert them from one form to another (transform). Not all of them needs handcoding from scratch, but eventually thats what is happening all over. Why there is no visual basic(that solved efficiently the 80% GUI issue) to solve this ????? Its time for visual C??? Probably the key take for such a system is to reverse engineer the existing tons of code?