the new math: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3608
Be careful. People who favor "higher" to basic tend to ignore the obvious because base instincts are a "sin". European rules of war conduct became prevalent within Western civilization...
Bill Bradley
LOGO was always an enlightened alternative to the at-the-time- predominant form of "computer" instruction for kids or for anyone else. Back in the day it was the alternative to using the computer for kids as a glorified page-turner for doing drills on a "teaching machine" or (for older kids and grownups) to using a TTY or punched cards to learn some extremely limited dialect of Basic, or Fortran, or any other language that condemns you to wasting pretty much an entire semester learning the highly arbitrary and irregular syntax of the language before getting down to thinking seriously about functions, objects, algorithms, logic, problem analysis and program design. (To say nothing about thinking about thinking itself, which was always on the LOGO agenda.)
Darn it all! I am still waiting for my Dynabook! (You see, I need something to play with while my flying car pilots itself.) But I'm prepared to be flexible: I don't much care whether it's programed top-to-bottom in Smalltalk or in LOGO. I'd settle for either. Might even compromise my principles so far as to settle for Common Lisp if I had too.
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the new math: old battle of the lovees was: PDP1 3609
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