Re: LOGO-L> Re: Report on Lego

[Jeff <jeffr@mugc.cc.monash.edu.au>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Mike Doyle wrote:
> LEGO Dacta during its development phase. In most schools kids simply bang 
> on a load of on-screen meters and write about what happened when they did 
> their 'experiment' with the sensors. 
Not in mine they don't
> look at the LEGO tradition we find a consistent use of pictorial, 
> non-linguistic instructions. In moving away from Logo to a more 
> pictographic approach to the control of their toy, LEGO are returning to a 
> more internally intellectually consistent visual approach. Moreover, we 
This is not true. Lego's construction drawings have got nothing to do 
with either pictographic writing, or computer programming. Pictographic 
writing is writing...language...it is NOT a diagram. There is nothing 
intellectual or consistent about a half-baked iconic programming language.
Lego's own 'tradition' wth this sort of thing is consistently mediocre, 
viz. LegoLines and the Intelligent House.

Jeff Richardson
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