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It's raw, like if you had a Forth system with a GUI that isn't aggressively obtuse. You can touch everything in it with a BASIC dialect, and at least in some variants drop into assembler and run the hardware somewhat directly.

This allows e.g. interesting graphics programming, and there's very little that gets in the way of immediately testing ideas.




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