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Logo Dormant

Logo
KindProgramming language
Appeared1967
StatusDormant
CreatorPapert, Feurzeig, Solomon / BBN
FamilyLisp
Sourceel.media.mit.edu ↗

Lisp re-dressed for children — turtle graphics as the curriculum. Papert's 'mindstorms' idea: a language a child thinks in.

Descended from LISP
Created by Wally Feurzeig Seymour Papert Cynthia Solomon
Influenced REBOL Scratch

Papert, Feurzeig, and Solomon's Logo (1967) — a Lisp for children — taught a generation to program via turtle graphics: FORWARD 10, RIGHT 90, and Seymour Papert's constructionist theory.\n\nThe 'mindstorms' philosophy (1980 book) argued children should program computers, not the reverse; Scratch is its modern heir.

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Sources

  1. el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)