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While this challenge does show off the complexity and beauty of Logo's "turtle graphics", it has often struck me as a tragedy of the language that, for most peo
by cr0sh 7y ago
While this challenge does show off the complexity and beauty of Logo's "turtle graphics", it has often struck me as a tragedy of the language that, for most people who have encountered Logo, they are led to believe that graphics is all it can do (or its only purpose).
- jhbadger 7y agoIndeed. I've recently discovered NetLogo, which is a variant designed for making simulations, and it is amazing how you can get a sophisticated simulation in about a page of code. https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/index.shtml
- DonHopkins 7y agoThat's actually why Terrapin published my "Logo Adventure" on the C64 utilities disk as a non-graphical example of list processing with Logo. https://medium.com/@donhopkins/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrapin-logo-4c684a240b53 https://medium.com/@donhopkins/logo-adventure-for-c64-terrap... >Logo Adventure for C64 Terrapin Logo >When I was 17, Terrapin published my first commercial code on their C64 Logo utilities disk: a Logo Adventure program, a simple non-graphical game that showed off Logo’s list processing and functional programming capabilities.