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by tehologist 846 days ago
I am pretty sure logo is mostly a lisp without parenthesis. I find it a lot more readable than most lisp dialects. I am not sure why it never caught on.
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runlaszlorun 846 days ago
I was about to post exactly the same… haha.

I’ve been doing a recent deep dive in languages as part of my own overly ambitious language attempt and only recently found out that Logo was in fact Lisp based.

I’m guessing that the reason it might not have taken off is because, unfortunately, it was looked upon as a ‘kid language’.

The goals of Papert and others seem a far cry from where tech has landed today.

edit: for an egregious typo

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mbork_pl 846 days ago
It is. A piece of trivia: AFAIR, you say

  SUM 2 3
in Logo to add two numbers, but

  [SUM 2 3 4]
to add more. (Though I learned Logo more than three decades ago, so I might be mistaken.)
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