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This takes me back. I remember learning Logo at school when I was 10 or 11 and had a project to do using Logo. For some reason I couldn't make it into school for a few weeks, I'm not sure if I was ill or something else but was going to miss the project hand in date, so I wrote the code on paper while I was at home as I didn't have a Logo compiler or interpreter for my ZX Spectrum. My teacher put my code into the interpreter and it ended up looking exactly as I had expected. I think it was a tank and used procedures/functions which was above and beyond what we'd been taught.

Of course Logo wasn't the most complex language ever but I remember being pretty pleased with myself having written a computer program on a bit of paper and it doing exactly what I'd visualised it to do.



> Of course Logo wasn't the most complex language ever

Logo's turtle graphics aren't the most complex language ever, but underneath of it is a Lisp without the parentheses, which is quite powerful including list processing and recursion.


Well, I didn't know that! My Logo days are well past and have no recollection of doing anything more than using turtle graphics to draw tanks.




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