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Re: LOGO-L> Why Basic, Pascal, etc.



patrick@harvassoc.com
Wed, 16 Aug 1995 10:51:32 -0400

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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 19:30:07 -0900
From: ewall@wis.com (Ed Wall)
Reply-To: ewall@wis.com (Ed Wall)
Subject: Re: LOGO-L> Why Basic, Pascal, etc.
To: Trapnellto@aol.com

>In what significant educational way do Basic, Hypercard, Pascal, and the
>other languages taught in K-12 compensate for deficiencies in Logo?
>
>In other words, why not teach Logo in all thirteen grades and just ignore the
>other languages?
>

Speaking from the point of a recent high school graduate and programmer,
Basic, Pascal and C are "real" programming languages. Logo was designed to
tecah math and geometry concepts, while Basic, Pascal, C/C++, etc. were
designed to write applications. If you want to teach math and geometry using
a computer, use Logo, but if you want to tech people how to program, use a
programming language, not a "learning" language.

Pat Gray
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