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From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.ai.edu
Subject: Re: Definitive reference for the LOGO Programming Language?
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Date: 24 Aug 89 10:59:21 GMT
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In article <1989Aug22.173606.9539@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal) writes:
>
>I'm looking for definitive references for LOGO.  I would like a book or books
>analogous to Kernighan and Ritchie for C, or Clocksin and Mellish for Prolog.
>Are there any such?

No, there are none.  Logo is not strictly defined by a formal syntax,
but has grown organically and there are a large number of different
dialects.  Some of the differences are pretty gross.  Seymour Papert (I
believe) holds the copyright on the word `Logo' and he is happy for
anyone to call more or less any product `Logo'. 

Use the reference manual for a decent Logo (Nimbus, IBM or Terrapin) as
a starting point. 

I have today posted a bibliography on Logo to comp.lang.misc, in case
anyone would like to have it.  This also contains a pointer to the Logo
mailing list. 


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