The entire framework is based on small, clean Ruby structures that can be executed programmatically.

In principle, this information is already available through other means, but it is actually a fair amount of work to gather it in this form, and I think it could be useful to open it up to programmatic consumption.

In addition to user interface, schemas also have a back-end equivalent that can be used programmatically, for instance through the content API.

Doing something programatically generally means that you can do it using source code, rather than via direct user interaction or a macro.

The reason SO users explicitly say "programmatically" is to reaffirm that they're asking "programming code" questions and not "IT-style" questions

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