LOGO-L> Re: Comments on Logo dynamic binding

[Chuck Shavit <CShavit@MagicSquare.com>]

Brian Harvey wrote: 

...

>  Summary: All languages are equivalent in the sense that you 
>  can get the job done somehow or other.  But a language style 
>  that makes for slightly more efficient programming by professional 
>  adult experts is not necessarily the same style that makes the 
>  ideas accessible to a young beginner.

I agree.  I'd like to add that it is much easier to write short programs
with dynamically scoped languages, than it is with statically scoped ones.
Many "professional adult experts" use both.  I personally use Perl
(dynamically scoped) for quickly solving localized "not too big" problems.
Applying C++ to these problems would take a lot more time.  BTW, Perl is
heaily used (by "professional adult experts") in web servers.

Chuck Shavit
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