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by satori99 771 days ago
Why not both? My Atari 800 came with a BASIC and a Logo cartridge. Logo was the thing that got my attention first because it could draw pictures on a TV screen right away, but writing BASIC programs and storing them on a cassette tape was the thing that got me hooked for life.
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Most BASICs had some primitive form of Logo language "on board". You send DRAW commands in strings e.g. "r90 f100". Clearly not as nice as having Logo installed on your computer.
The Apple II had single-pixel and line drawing with absolute coordinates. There was a clever “shapes tables” thing that was used to draw images on screen (I used it to draw text with nice looking proportional fonts)