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Logo sucked you in with the turtle graphics and making cool shapes. It is basically a computer etch-a-sketch, but it does get boring at some point. I am so gr

Logo sucked you in with the turtle graphics and making cool shapes. It is basically a computer etch-a-sketch, but it does get boring at some point. I am so grateful that I had a teacher that pointed out there was an amazing language just past cute turtles. Logo was a real change from programming in BASIC, FORTH, and 6502 assembler. It was one thing to read about all the cool languages in Byte Magazine, but it was quite another to actually get a shot at programming one of the cooler ones.

jrd259 8y ago
Logo was more than turtle graphics. It also provided list processing with slightly friendlier names: Logo BUTFIRST is Lisp's CDR. This makes possible a great deal of purely linguistic programming, e.g. "20 questions game", text based adventure, etc. (I was one of the implementors of Logo for Apple II.)
- jhbadger 8y ago
  Exactly. Logo was trying to turn kids into Lisp programmers in the same sense that BASIC was a kid's version of classic FORTRAN.
- protomyth 8y ago
  thus I said I am so grateful that I had a teacher that pointed out there was an amazing language just past cute turtles.