> > 1) What is the easiest way to draw a graphical object (e.g., a line)?

Phillippe -- Andreas offers some nicely general solutions to your
question. I'd like to add that Smalltalk has always supported turtle
graphics which is probably the EASIEST way to draw a line:

	Pen new
	  turn: 30;
	  go: 100

This may not be beautiful by modern standards. But it's handy when you
want to add some debugging plot output to a complicated program. -- Ward

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