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Re:Spacewar written in Apple Logo by jrd259 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:52PM (#18086310)
Logo was more than turtle graphics. It also provided list processing with slightly friendlier names: Logo BUTFIRST is Lisp's CDR. This makes possible a great deal of purely linguistic programming, e.g. "20 questions game", text based adventure, etc. (I was one of the implementors of Logo for Apple II.)
Re:Spacewar written in Apple Logo by protomyth on Thursday September 27, 2018 @02:00PM (#18087047)
thus I said I am so grateful that I had a teacher that pointed out there was an amazing language just past cute turtles.
Re:Spacewar written in Apple Logo by jhbadger on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:31PM (#18086750)
Exactly. Logo was trying to turn kids into Lisp programmers in the same sense that BASIC was a kid's version of classic FORTRAN.