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Re:Lisping at JPL (2002) by pgtan on Sunday January 19, 2020 @05:11AM (#22090548)
But it is also a excellent concatenative (left-to-right) language with brilliant procedure definition mechanism. Here as example, an oneliner to draw ascii christmas tree, we made with the kid last year:

? tanne.print tanne.output tanne.shift tanne.split 19 3 3

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Re:Lisping at JPL (2002) by lonelappde on Monday January 20, 2020 @03:46PM (#22101958)
It's a bit silly to hide the work in a method call and call it a "one-liner".
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Re:Lisping at JPL (2002) by taeric on Sunday January 19, 2020 @05:12PM (#22094480)
What are you using to execute this? The Python module?
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Re:Lisping at JPL (2002) by pgtan on Sunday January 19, 2020 @07:01PM (#22095084)
Berkeley Logo (brand new in version 6.1). I have compiled two versions, with and without wx.

The file with the procedures is on github:

https://github.com/pgtan/puzzles/blob/master/baum1.lg

https://github.com/jrincayc/ucblogo-code

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