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From: gjc@mitech.COM
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Subject: scheme for kids
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Date: 30 Oct 90 19:41:42 GMT
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All things considered (especially the age of the Apple-II and
the address space limitations) the best you can do as far as
programming languages would be LOGO. There are two versions available,
one from LCSI in Canada and one from Terripin (sp) in MA.

I am more familiar with the Terripin environment, having done a bit
of work in it around 1981, specifically the implementation of LOG, EXP,
and some other functions, in LOGO itself. 
The basic idea is that you get a dual-window environment,
an "echo" area at the bottom in which to type programs and commands
and a "graphics" area in which to view the turtle.
Editing a procedure pops up a special edit window.

There are at least two books of interest which use LOGO in some way.
One of them is called Turtle Geometry.

If you can find a reasonable C compiler then perhaps an implementation
of Scheme such as XSCHEME or SIOD would fit into the 64kbyte address
space. But since you would have to add at least some graphics primitives
to make it interesting you may very well run out of room without
putting a huge amount of work into the project. The 6502 was like that.

-gjc