In comp.lang.lisp pg <penang@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I am in the process of setting up computers for a group of children,
> in the age between 7 to 12, who have never operate a PC before, with
> the intention to install educational / entertaining freewares for
> them.
>
> The computers will be Windows 98SE based, with Pentium III or better
> CPU, 256MB of RAM each. Graphic is VGA, mostly S3-powered graphic
> cards.
>
> I am thinking of installing Logo for them, but before I do that, I do
> need to ask the Gurus here for help.
>
> Okay, now .. which flavor of Logo do you think best suit the children,
> as well as the computers? Or if you know of any offering from Lisp and/
> or Dylan that suit this task, kindly please share.
>
You may consider Poplog system:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/poplog.info.html
Poplog gives you four programming languages: Pop11, Common Lisp,
SML, and Prolog. Poplog need only a few megabytes of memory and
will run pretty fast on 500 MHz processor. Installation takes
about 70 Mb of disk space. Pop11 is a language with similar
power to Common Lisp, but is more similar to traditional languages
(it uses Pascal like syntax). For beginners Pop11 offers words
and list maniputaltions in Logo style, while advanced users can
use much more.
Let me mention some drawbacks. First, on Windows Poplog is text-only
-- Poplog sup****t graphics only on Linux. Second, Poplog is not
localised: messages and do***antation is in English. AFAIK the
program can handle any language, but somebody would have to
translate texts...
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Waldek Hebisch
hebisch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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