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They can't: that's the price you pay for the abstraction. Smalltalk got the closest, but if you really want to dig into a GUI, at the end of the day, you have to read the code behind it.



Maybe I should read the code behind Smalltalk. I'm glad the day isn't over.


You mean AppleScript?


No, AS didn't do nearly as good a job as ST did.




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