From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!dyer Newsgroups: net.micro Title: Re: Logo...am I missing the boat?? Article-I.D.: wivax.1055 Posted: Fri Dec 31 17:02:56 1982 Received: Sat Jan 1 03:29:42 1983 References: mhuxv.1049 sdcsvax.30 Regarding the syntax of LOGO, I'm not so crazy about it myself, but from speaking with a friend of mine who is using it in her grade- school classes in place of BASIC, the students don't seem to mind it at all. I think it depends on one's previous experience. My own feeling is that it lacks the utter simplicity of LISP, and I find the ":" convention to use the value of a variable maddening (shades of BLISS!). Nevertheless, it liberates the student from the linear constraints that BASIC imposes, and this is perhaps its most important contribution. Individually named procedures, recursion, an intriguingly consistent treatment of numbers, strings and lists: all pretty high-level stuff, and the kids are eating it up. It's nice to know they're brighter than BASIC assumes.