Re: LOGO-L> Best logo?

[George Mills <mills@softronix.com>]

You can have your own opinion over what Logo is best.
But TEXTSCREEN is left out of MSWLogo because the command
was created for computers designed in the 1970's.
Logo was designed around the "current" capabilities
of computers of its day (A DEC PDP-11). MSWLogo is no different.
However, MSWLogo's day is today. It can create sub windows with text,
use the mouse, play movies, record your voice, everything a
modern computer can do to communicate with the user.

MSWLogo has a huge amount of modern alternatives to
interface with the user. Methods that will take full advantage
of your computer and have user interfaces that the user
of your logo program has learned to expect. It will also prepare
you for more commercial languages like Visual Basic, Java
or C++.

Some implementations of Logo do "emulate" the old style
computers with a TEXTSCREEN mode etc. I could not see the point
in emulating computers interfaces designed over 25 years ago.

MSWLogo can partially emulate textscreen, fullscreen etc.
But be careful with FULLSCREEN because you no longer have
a "commander" window to talk to. Actually TEXTSCREEN below
does pretty much what TEXTSCREEN is supposed to do. But
the "commander" window is not a true "textscreen".

to fullscreen
windowset [Commander] 0
windowset [MSWLogo Screen] 3
end

to splitscreen
windowset [Commander] 1
windowset [MSWLogo Screen] 1
end

to textscreen
windowset [MSWLogo Screen] 0
windowset [Commander] 3
end

Bin Jiang wrote:
> 
> Hi, does anyone there know best Logo to play with some programs with Jim
> Muller's book (the great Logo adventure)? At least MSWLogo is not best,
> as it has not support TEXTSCREEN yet. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Bin
> 
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