Logo Programming Language
58 points by azhenley 3 days ago | 18 comments

spider-mario 2 minutes ago
Could we please not make text light grey on white?

https://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html#fg=96...

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mschaef 10 minutes ago
Back in 1983, my elementary school was a part of a Logo pilot program. We had a lab of Commodore 64's that I had free run of (my mom was a teacher there), and it's why I do what I do all these years later.

What I find interesting it that it's not just programming, specifically. Logo is a highly interactive and dynamic language (a relative of Lisp), and that influenced the way I think about writing code. Seymour Papert did a lot for me, albeit highly indirectly.

https://mschaef.com/c64

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ihumanable 48 minutes ago
I still remember when we learned logo in elementary school. I had to get my mom to go out and buy a 3.5" disk so I could save my programs.

When I realized that all of logo was actually saved on that disk and I could continue playing with the turtle at home, I was amazed.

Drawing little things, realizing that I was repeating stuff and breaking it into little functions so I could draw them again more easily. I was learning the essentials of programming and didn't even realize it.

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Duanemclemore 17 minutes ago
When I was seven I wrote my first program. It was in Terrapin Logo and evenly tiled the monitor of my elementary school's Apple IIe with hexagons.

It's been all downhill since.

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lackoftactics 2 hours ago
I didn't win logo programming competition in polish equivalent of 7th grade and I am still salty about it
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Tade0 26 minutes ago
I learned the Language through examples because the version provided by the school didn't have documentation and in 00s Poland internet was still relatively rare.

I... participed in the competition, but that's all.

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lackoftactics 17 minutes ago
same problem, it wasn't exaclty the best experience with first programming language
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the_homeless_go 17 minutes ago
Hi, I'm developing language with similar logic but like Idris & Elixir https://digitable-lol.github.io/flang/en/index.html

It's GPL with specifications based on real lanagues, so you can experiment or even make your commits or PRs

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agumonkey 4 minutes ago
iirc logo had lambda and recursion, which means a lot of kids in the 80s were that close to become lispers
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stusmall 21 minutes ago
Logo started my love of programming. I will always be thankful for it and that little turtle. IIRC there was a limit of 128 stamps in LogoWriter and my sister and I would fight so much about it.
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corysama 46 minutes ago
Logo was my introduction to programming. Working on a 1 MHz Commodore64, my masterpiece was a fireworks show that was animated by the fact that the individual drawing commands were so slow you could watch them play out.

So, draw a curve from the ground to the sky. Draw some explosion shape. Change pen color to the sky color. Draw the curve and the explosion again to erase them. Change pen color and start the next firework.

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tshapedrob 20 minutes ago
Berkeley Logo was one of my first programming languages. The idea of declaring functions with the keyword “to” still feels like a fun and good idea, even though of course it doesn’t matter. Just a different perspective.
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animateus 58 minutes ago
Oh my god - Logo, brings back memories of my childhood and my first "microcomputer": ZX Spectrum +. I spent countless hours trying to force the damn turtle to draw shapes I wanted it to. Unbelievable that this language is still alive.
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mococa 2 hours ago
I learned how to program (& do CAD) with LOGO when I was 8 y'old.
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wooperville 51 minutes ago
The majority of GenX programmers I know learned logo in the 70s and early 80s. Such a great introductory language.
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joeypickles 27 minutes ago
Yeah, somehow I owe my entire software engineering career to that flower and garden program example. There was something about being able to add new words based on primitives, and new words based on custom words, that captured me for good.
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Towaway69 32 minutes ago
Not to be confused with NetLogo ;)

https://www.netlogo.org/

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