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Subject: Re: Logo Versions? - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 19-Dec-83 22:50:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 19 22:50:27 1983
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uokvax!andree    Dec 18 15:39:00 1983

Gee, mike (ucbvax!turner), it seems like most of your complaints about
LOGO deal with either things that are hard to implement, or things
that have been implemented poorly - specifically things which result
in lack of speed. Sounds like what you want is assembler. Easy to implement,
and everything is *FAST*.

Before the flames start, I KNOW that's not what you want. I just carried
your complaints to the extreme. I don't hold features that are hard to
implement against a language. Usually, those are the features about a 
language that are NICEST. Inefficiencies in the implementation I hold
against the implementor.

As a final comment, I actually AGREE with you about the badness in
Logo. Logo is mostly LISP, with a different syntax and some (relatively
minor) extensions. The things you picked on are due to the change in
syntax. Many people (me among them) view this change as a definite mistake.
I think the idea behind the change was that `infix is more natural.' As
far as I know, nobody has actually done a study of this. If someone knows
of such studies, I'd like to hear about it.

	<mike