sometimes I fear this is true

["Daniel Ajoy" <da.ajoy@xxxxxxxxx>]

this was taken from:

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/1512239

> The turtle was the worst thing to ever happen to Logo. Logo 
> is a full featured language capable of doing anything other 
> languages can. But because we were all introduced to the 
> turtle at relatively young ages and nobody ever showed us 
> how to do anything more than draw simple pictures we all 
> concluded that it was only a toy and not for serious use. 
> Only now, years later, do I realize how wrong that was.
> 
> For those who want to rediscover Logo and learn what it was 
> *really* all about you can go to the website of Brian 
> Harvey, a logo guru:
> 
> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ [berkeley.edu]
> 
> On this website you can download a nice series of textbooks 
> about Logo and also download the Berkeley Logo 
> implementation of the language. I was surprised to find 
> that Logo is a functional programming language. I am also 
> studying Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, and Erlang and find the 
> whole concept of functional programming to be very 
> interesting. It is getting hot again and will become a 
> critical part of programming if we are to take advantage of 
> multi-core cpu's.
> 
> I am constantly amazed by just how vast this industry 
> really is. I wish it hadn't taken me so long to realize 
> this and I am saddened that so many people coming out of 
> school these days have no clue that there is anything other 
> than Java and Dot Not out there.



Daniel