Logo Programming!

Q: What did kids do back in the olden days, before smoking crack and sniffin glue was the regular hobby it is for today's youngsters?

A: Why, they programmed in Logo, silly!

What a christmas treat! I just saw this heading, Logo Rediscovered on programming.reddit.com -- and immediately had to take their challenge:

Can you figure out how to draw a tree?

Spoiler alert:Here's my code for implementing a tree...

Love that recursion!

'gazzo' on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 20:03:28 GMT, sez:

Logo madness! Ah it takes me back!

'WaterBreath' on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:10:28 GMT, sez:

Wow, I haven't used Logo since grade school. But it was LogoWriter for the Apple IIe back then. I moved on to Apple Basic before long, and never knew that Logo even supported procedure/function arguments, let alone recursion! If I'd known it was so sophisticated I wouldn't have been in such a hurry to learn a "real" programming language like BASIC. =D

'Brian Adkins' on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:48:39 GMT, sez:

to tree :n
if :n < 1 [hideturtle stop]
setheading 315
forward :n
tree (:n / 2)
setheading 135
forward :n
setheading 45
forward :n
tree (:n / 2)
setheading 225
forward :n
end

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