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The editing UI with the keywords as a calculator-style interface in the bottom half of the screen is an interesting '80s flashback. It reminds me of LucasArts-style adventure games with a grid of action verbs below the game view.

Also, those home computer keyboards where each key had both an alphabet and a BASIC keyword printed on it:

http://ewyse.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/acornelectron_top.j...

That was a pretty clever way to make the programming language quick reference available at a glance.

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