Re: LOGO-L> Clocks and the TIME primitive

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

In My Humble Opinion a programming language without access
to TIME is a pretty large oversight. That's why I added it.
Both a wall clock time (TIME) and a Precision Timer (TIMEMILLI)
are both really useful functions for all sorts of projects.
In my 20 years of programming I don't think I've written one
serious program that did not use TIME for something.

How long will something take?
How long did something take?
What time will it be done?
What time would you like to start it?
What happened at what time?
Which algorithm is faster?
etc.
etc.

TIME is what makes a computer tic !!!

Perhaps your Logo's call it something else or have hooks
into the system functions.

If you have some sort of wait function you can create
your own sense of time within the program, but the clock
may drift a bit.

An "Event Timer" (where you fire things off at precise times,
like the second hand on a clock) is also very powerful.

Stephen Brown Inter*American Academy wrote:
> 
> I'd love to try out the clock procedures and translated ok until I hit the
> time primitive. We have no TIME primitive in either of the logo versions
> that we use - LogoWriter2.0 - MicroWorlds2.0.
> Is this hidden or simply unavailable in these versions?
> Steve ;-)
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