Re: GSoft BASIC Ramble

[limtc <thyechean@gmail.com>]

Hi Mike, thanks for the information. It is really nice to talk to
someone who is very important in many Apple IIGS programmers heart.

I have just downloaded Star Logo on Mac to briefly take a look, and
will try it out. However, I personally prefers BASIC/Pascal over LOGO
because they are more generic - my 8 years old son is learning not how
to do animation, but to write a game. He is currently using Complete
Pascal (and in a lesser extend, GSoft BASIC) to do his programming.

Star Logo implementation also does not look too good in Mac,
especially where the button text is not align properly, etc. It is
easy to see that it is ported.

Personally I would love an GSoft BASIC type of environment, but run
natively on PC/Mac. If implemented well, software written in such
environment not only will run on PC/Mac, but also on the Apple IIGS.

On 5月17日, 下午11时49分, Mike Westerfield <Mike...@aol.com> wrote:

> For kids, I'd recommend looking into Star Logo. Actually, I'd
> recommend it for anyone. I had quite a lot of fun with it. There are
> some cool companion books, one of which shows how to write some fairly
> cool emergent systems using a language accessible to a middle school
> kid. I had lots of fun with the slime mold program, although I admit I
> quickly moved it to Java to get speed and flexibility.
>
> Mike