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- From: axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
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- Subject: Re: lvars and standards (was: Re: List and Vector Syntax)
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- Date: 20 Jan 93 16:08:34 GMT
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- bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
-
- > Date: 18 Jan 93 15:13:00 GMT
- > Organization: University of California, Berkeley
-
- > ....It's
- > easy to write a Pascal compiler in Logo because the dynamic scope at
- > compile time matches the lexical scope at run time.
-
- This is not strictly relevant, but I remember that some years ago
- (late 1970s?) there was an attempt to write a Logo interpreter
- (including store manager and garbage collector) in Pascal and they
- eventually had to give up because Pascal was such an impoverished
- and unsuitable language. It's interesting that the reverse is
- easier, even though many people think of Logo as a "toy" language,
- since it was designed for children.
-
- [advert: see
- A.Sloman
- `Beginners need powerful systems', in
- New Horizons in Educational Computing,
- ed. M.Yazdani,
- Ellis Horwood and John Wiley, 1984.]
-
- Aaron
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