Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU!DANFUZZ From: DANFUZZ@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Dan Bornstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: logo Message-ID: <8912152331.AA24852@apple.com> Date: 15 Dec 89 23:25:36 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 From: "J.r. O'brien" >What is LOGO? Aside from being another programming language. It's a language derived from Lisp which was intended as a teaching language. It uses prefix notation for procedure calls (e.g., FNORD 20 10) but it has infix arithmetic expressions. Many people don't consider it a "real" language since all that many people know about it is that it can do "turtle graphics". However, its list-processing capabilities are nothing to cough at, seeing as it is (as mentioned above) a Lisp (LISt Processor or something like that) derivative. (I've played around with Logo's list stuff quite a bit, although not in a while.) It is generally made as an interpreter, but there is nothing keeping anyone from writing a Logo compiler, although there probably isn't much demand for compiled Logo code. -dan Bitnet: danfuzz@brownvm Internet: danfuzz@brownvm.brown.edu AppleTalk: Find me a long enough cable and I'll see what we can do.