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- From: mills@athena.lkg.dec.com (George Mills)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.logo
- Subject: Re: Logo for MS-DOS ("rich logos")
- Message-ID: <mills.724977006@dialup.athena.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:30:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.183720.20561@lehi3b15.CSEE.Lehigh.EDU>
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- > 2/ mswlogo - windows Logo. This is very good indeed - my kids are Windows
- > hackers already so they had no problems with it. It is not as rich a language
- > as the UCB logo above but is great for kids (thats what LOGO is for isnt it).
- >
-
- Too bad you put this comment SO far down in your "review" :-).
-
- And your right on the mark, it's the windows user interface that I hope
- will attract and hold onto them, longer than the TTY style.
- MswLogo should (and hopefully will) be able to allow the Logo programmer
- to write windows applications (dialog boxes, buttons, etc.).
- It probably will be limited because I don't plan to write a resource
- compiler, but the student can at least learn a windows programming model.
-
- For begginers there is not that much difference between 3.X and 2.4
- MswLogo. There are things already in 3.X that are even better than 2.4 for
- the beginner. Like a post script document, more consistent command names,
- etc. The reason I tell folks to wait for a newer version is that it's
- not Kid-proof. You can make it hang or crash windows by doing odd things
- (which kids do). Also docs are a little hard to understand for new
- programmers. Other than that it's just a tad more complex and a lot richer.
-
- Once Msw Logo 3.X is cleaned up the simplicity of 2.4
- should not be an issue. If it is, it will get fixed, one way or another.
-