I couldn't agree more. Not only that, but now lots of people in computer
science and mathematics education (such as LCSI, Les Steffe, ourselves with our
"Turtle Math") are WRITING new programs (new versions of Logo and other
exploratory environments) IN LOGO.
Thanks,
Doug
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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