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>The second article in this issue of BYTE has a delightful mention of Logo (the programming language). Hacker News discussion of BYTE's special Logo issue: <ht
by ylee 4y ago
>The second article in this issue of BYTE has a delightful mention of Logo (the programming language).
Hacker News discussion of BYTE's special Logo issue: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603556>
>In my own life, I was fortunate to have stumbled upon Logo as my first computer programming language. The simplicity and elegance of Logo had a powerful effect on me at a very young age. It immediately turned me into a computer programmer for life!
I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is.
While I have never worked as a professional software developer, computers have been a hobby all my life. I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in in recent years is Emacs Lisp is unrelated to the above moment.
- MonkeyClub 4y ago> I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. Yep, this was 100% me too. I "got" recursion through math and induction and a bit of graph paper, and the way it made my mind recurse to infinity made me feel ... funny ... in that age. But it wasn't until I used Logo on the school's only Macintosh LC475 that I got the full psychedelic effects. Nothing as intricate as NetLogo (e.g. see its Koch curve here: http://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/models/Sample%20Models/Mathematics/Fractals/Koch%20Curve.nlogo http://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#http://ccl.northwestern.edu...), but still a strong impression. Funnily, that had as a consequence to fall in love with iterative function systems and pizzabox-form desktops, leading to me being introduced to Matila Ghyka's book, and Sun's Sparcstation 5.