Re: Low-level vs. High-level programming (was My First Computer)

["M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>
> There are lots of strange (and weird) computer programming languages, most
> all of these languages are history, RPG and others that had big enough
> support (IBM in the 60's and 70's is as strong as it got) continue to be
> used in one way or another.
>
> Look at LOGO, a non computational computer programming language
> that was little more than a toy (the same basic language was written into
> some toys).

LOGO had a very stable and efficient implementation for recursion that
allowed it to run on very limited microcomputers.  IMHO it would be
difficult or impossible to find any "serious" language of the day that could
handle recursive algorithms as efficiently with the limited memory space,
stack and CPU speed of the 1980s Apple II.

There were other implementations of LISP available for the Apple II (e.g.
Owl Lisp), but they were not nearly as stable.

- Mike