This has been driving me crazy. About 20 years ago there was this program where you would type in these commands like rt 50 and the cursor would move on the screen. It was kind of like a drawing program.
Can anyone remember the name of it? Has anyone even heard of it?
Turtle on the VIC20?
I would guess it was turtle.
We never called it turtle in computer class. I think we may called it logo but I’m not sure??? Thanks for the replies so far!
that was a command in turtle graphics which could be part of the Logo programming language. Logo was cross platform and available on different brands of computers. Logo still exists as a language and does have some nice features.
Aside from the turtle graphics, it always struck me as being basically just BASIC with a couple of minor vocabulary changes (but the same grammar). What nice features are you thinking of?
It sounds like Logo, an interactive programming language. It’s surprisingly powerful when you dig down - you can accomplish A LOT with it that would take you forever in C. It has it’s nice graphics system, and a surprisingly robust list processing system that rivals Lisp, but without all those parentheses.
Has anyone incorporated Lisp into a modern framework? Is there a Logo.NET or a Logo compiler for the JVM? A GCC front end for Logo?