[Gllug] Logo as a first language

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On Thu, 03 Mar 2005, Peter Childs uttered the following:
> If memory serves correctly, Logo (On my Atari see another current
> thread...) was functional, somwhat realated to Haskel which as
> certainaly has been used for real work.

Logo is a syntax layer over Lisp.

> I've also met graphical libraries in other languages that are turtle
> like, Postscript can work like this. So my memory is telling me that
> Logo is a cross between Postscript and Haskel hmm what a strange
> cross....

Some Scheme implementations (e.g. SCHEME-48 and derivatives, including
scsh) permit modules to replace the Lisp reader (== parser, roughly).
With this and a few (OK, *quite* a few) macros, it's possible to make a
Scheme interpreter accept Logo programs (with a bit of Schemish stuff at
the top to set the module system up and flip the reader over).

> In short all languages have their place, and all landuages have a
> correct place for there use, Its just a matter of using the right
> tools for the right job.

I dispute your contention that there is ever a right place for
PILOT or MS BASIC V2.0 other than the dustbin.

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