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> it's all a magic black box to them.

Sounds like a big success, then!

Isn't this what every high level programming language designer aimed for?

Well, it's like a GUI. If there's a menu item for what you want to do, it's brilliantly simple. If not, then you're stuck unless you can write a program, which means, understanding how the GUI works under the covers so you can write a GUI app of your own.

I remember the days of writing GEM apps in 68k assembly...

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