From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!jah
Newsgroups: net.lang
Title: Re: LOGO
Article-I.D.: brunix.1464
Posted: Tue Feb  8 14:38:25 1983
Received: Fri Feb 11 06:26:03 1983
References: mb2b.136

1) LOGO is unquestionably better than Basic etc. for beginners (my
opinion, not totally unfounded).  What age ranges?  At MIT it was
used in a first year physics course (college first year, that it) with
fine rresults (Abelson and Disessa)

2) One can program quite seriously in Logo.  Not on an apple, though.
A good Logo (and even apple logo) can cerrtainly do all the games
and learning aid type stuff that machines are used for in schools.

3) Logo is called a simplified version of Lisp.  I'm not sure this
is 100% true, but it's close enough.   The future of Lisp in this
country is assured (but which Lisp in particular is unclear).  Several
large computer compannies (TI, HP, & IBM  to name but three) are
spending considerable amounts of money on what they call "ai" (but
what is really symbolic prrogramming, not necessarily AI).  One of
the above three is serriously looking into LispMachines and the
production thereof, and the otherrs are talking about buying them.
Shlumberger-Dahl, CDC, BBN, TI, are among the many that already own
Lisp Machines (in some form orr another).