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

["Kelly Hall" <hall@priest.com>]

"Randy McLaughlin" <randy@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Pp_Ka.616$Im5.226@fe03.atl2.webusenet.com...
> 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).

I think of Logo as basically Scheme with infix syntax.  From the
comp.lang.logo FAQ:

Logo was originally developed by Daniel Bobrow and Wallace Feurzeig at
Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., and Seymour Papert, at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in the 1960's. (See "2: What was the genesis of
Logo?" below.) It was based on the goal of allowing people to use
computers to manipulate things more familiar than the then-prevalent
numbers and equations. Logo borrowed the techniques of symbolic computation
(manipulating words and ideas) from the LISP programming language used
in artificial intelligence research. Powerful computer science concepts
of the procedure, recursion, programs-as-data are built into Logo.

Logo is Turing-complete, making it a 'real' computer programming language.
:)

Kelly