This was an interesting read. I grew up with early personal computers of the eighties and in the geographic area described in the history, so a lot of it is nostalgic. At that time, programming on early home computers generally meant using BASIC (and maybe poke’ing some assembly code) before getting into “real” languages like pascal, Fortran and c in college. I remember thinking logo was a ‘baby’ language and only for kids—-it wasn’t until later on I appreciated some of its features and it’s ties to lisp.

Programming languages like REBOL (or the modern variant Red http://www.red-Lang.org) seem to build on many of the same ideas.