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Logo was my first programming language. #Nostalgic Thanks Google and thanks for Clojure implementation.

BASIC was my first programming language. Starting with the days of the Commodore 64, Apple IIe, and MS GWBASIC, but I never understood it well enough beyond a number guessing game or so. Then I had a class on Logo, and I was doing cool stuff on my own, and it was so fun! Yeah, I love Logo.

During the time of that Logo class, I tried writing a BASIC program for a programming competition with my new-found confidence. But it was such a spectacular fail that my 11-year old self was literally crying.

I find both Logo and Clojure are profound, simple, and powerful in their own ways. A friend and I are working to take the next step with this project and make this a little more accessible/usable. ;)

My first language was BASIC on a Z80 Chip Sol 20 Computer. To play a game you had to type in pages of source code. Man what a pain with the line numbers and debugging for a 7 year old was insane. I then learned some LOGO, Pascal and Forth and then to Assembly in the C64 days for nefarious purposes.

I have to say that when I learned Scratch it reminded me of my old Logo days.

BASIC was my first language too, but LOGO was the first language I attempted to make an interpretor for (also, incidentally, LOGO was the first language I took a class for, just for fun - something Radio Shack offered for the Color Computer, which was the machine I owned).

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