silvert@dalcs.UUCP (02/26/87)
I would like to find a LOGO interpreter to run on a Unix system -- one
written in C would be great, but since LISP is also a logical language
in which to write LOGO, that would be fine too. We have XLISP, so
that would be the best dialect.
We don't need turtle graphics, just the LISP-like commands for
interpreting text input will do fine.
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Why, I hear you asking, do I want to run LOGO when I have LISP?
Aside from the minor factor that I don't program in LISP and have no
great desire to learn how to, the main reason is that my 14-year-old
daughter has written a fantastic ecology teaching game which she
plans to implement in LOGO on an Atari ST, and we would like to port
it to our own MESS (Marine Ecology Simulation System). The program
is based on a simple Q&A tree structure. You are asked a question,
and the program parses your answer and sends you to the correct next
unit (probably teaching languages like PILOT would be ideal, but we
don't have those available).
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Bill Silvert
Marine Ecology Laboratory, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
CDN or BITNET: silvert@cs.dal.cdn -- UUCP: ..!{seismo|utai}!dalcs!silvert
ARPA: silvert%dalcs.uucp@seismo.CSS.GOV -- CSNET: silvert%cs.dal.cdn@ubc.csnetericr@hpvcla.UUCP (02/26/87)
I don't know if your daughter is already a LOGO expert or not, but she could use Xlisp on the Atari and then be truly compatible across the board. Eric Ross Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA (Home of the Thinkjet and Quietjet printers) HPDesk: Eric Ross/HP5400/AL (HP Internal) UUCP: ihnp4!hpfcla!hpvcla!ericr CIS: 72347,2664 GEnie: E.ROSS Phone: (206)254-8110
bh@mit-amt.UUCP (03/01/87)
I have a free Logo for Unix. It isn't all that good; it uses a yacc parser so it's kinda slow. (Running on a Vax 780 with nobody else logged in it's about as fast as Logo on an Atari 800.) It doesn't do tail recursion elimination so you need a lot of memory. Still, the price is right. I could attempt to send it out by Internet or (shudder) uucp mail, or you could send me a tape. bh@media-lab.media.mit.edu Uucp: probably something like ...!mit-eddie!bh@media-lab