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



Jeff Richardson (jeffr@bf.rmit.edu.au)
Thu, 17 Aug 1995 15:00:22 +1000 (EST)

Pat
I've stayed out of this deadend issue 'til now, but as a graduate, you
need an education: Both BASIC and Pascal were built as instruction
languages. This does not make them any less real than any other language
but they are unambiguously 'learning' in origin. Logo is a dialect of
LISP; Geometry(and Maths) are inessential but interesting add-ons. You
can build a complete declarative language(Prolog) in about 4 pages of
logo code....the language is about Computer Science, if it is about anything.

On Wed, 16 Aug 1995 patrick@harvassoc.com wrote:
>
> 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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