[Gllug] Logo as a first language

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:50:54PM +0000, Dan Kolb wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:39:19PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> > 
> > [1] Like you say, though, it suffers from a non-free implementation,
> >     which is a huge flaw in my book, particularly for teaching -- if
> >     you can't play around with a language on your home machine, what
> >     chance do you have of being able to learn it?
>
> Amanda exists, which, although not a full free clone of Miranda,
> does a pretty good job of it.

I wrote a Miranda -> Haskell translator while I was at university,
just so I could do the Miranda exercises at home on my Linux box with
GHC.  I wrote the translator in perl ... it was just a bunch of really
nasty regexps :-)

Rich.

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