From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!taylor
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Re: Logo...am I missing the boat??
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.30
Posted: Thu Dec 30 23:20:11 1982
Received: Sat Jan  1 03:18:44 1983
References: mhuxv.1049


I must have seen a different version of LOGO to everyone here who raves about
it as a great language (specially for kids...!!!)
	The version that I saw was about as obscure a syntax as they come!
While I might very well be shot down and stewed for this, I still say that
BASIC is the best language to teach a child...it's a hell of a lot closer
to human language (remember that???  Recall that the Computer is a TOOL!
A Hell of a sophisticated one, but a tool nonetheless.  Therefore it should
adjust to US, not the other way around!!  I mean, it seems that my computer
should be able to accept the language that I use, and learn it, rather than
making me learn a NEW language so that I can communicate with it!!  I mean
HEY!!! Who is the boss??  US or IT?   *sigh*  enough.  )

	Obviously, I think that ENGLISH (remember that too??) is the best
language...since the kids are struggling with it anyway...but in the mean-
time I would settle for a language that is 1) interpretive (with a compilation
option...) and 2) reasonably mnemonic, in that the programmer does not need
a sheaf of notes by his/her side before even contemplating using the computer.

	I know that this will have many flames turned up high.  No Problem.

In fact I encourage the mail...(but, perhaps, not the posted articles...the
newsgroup is a bit cluttered as it is!)

		Happy New Year etcetera!!!


					--  Dave Taylor

					sdcsvax!taylor