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Sorry, title too long so I struggled to shorten it. Original tittle:

The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes

sure, and it was the day after the visit to Xerox Parc
I'm not sure of the timing (and whether you're sarcastic) but yeah, I found it funny compared to PARC showing Steve Jobs how the Smalltalk environment allowing modifying GUI behavior at run-time let them iterate quickly, sometimes in front of users (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg&lc=UgwYCZ7PefOXO...).

I guess https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html is the closest you get with a compiled language :-)

P.S. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html has good historical context on that visit(s)