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I think Logo gets a undeserved reputation as a "kindergarden" programming language, when it's actually a nice Lisp dialect. See Brian Harvey's "Computer Science
by alexshendi 5y ago
I think Logo gets a undeserved reputation as a "kindergarden" programming language, when it's actually a nice Lisp dialect. See Brian Harvey's "Computer Science, Logo Style". Available for free for personal use (as in free beer) at:
1. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v1-toc2.html
2. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v2-toc2.html https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v2-toc2.html
3. https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v3-toc2.html https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/v3-toc2.html
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- ModernMech 5y agoWhile what you say is true about Logo being a good lisp, I would say the reputation it has is not undeserved but instead intentional due to the target audience of the turtle graphics system. The lisp-ness is incidental — I wouldn’t try teaching kindergarteners Clojure.