Subj : Re: Is BASIC to be regarded as less than reputable prog lang?
To   : tenser
From : Bob Worm
Date : Sat Jul 13 2024 21:58:54

  Re: Re: Is BASIC to be regarded as less than reputable prog lang?
  By: tenser to Malvinas on Sun Jul 14 2024 04:21:40

Hi, Tenser.
 > Not true!  LOGO is actually a dialect of Lisp, and as such,
 > it's incredibly powerful.

I did not know that. My primary school had the turtle things but through my entire school career I never saw one in use. Another fine waste of tax money :)

 > many could not wrap their heads around functional-
 > style programming.

Eughhh... flashbacks to university... I am not surprised people struggle with it, I still remember the horrors of trying to master depth-first and breadth-first algorithms using only statements of truth. That was in HUGS, a variant of Haskell - not sure if LISP is easier or harder than that?

BobW
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