Dr Logo is an educational programming language, designed in 1967 by Wally Feurzeig, Seymour Papert, and Cynthia Solomon.
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11 Facts About Dr Logo
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Dr Logo is not an acronym: the name was coined by Feurzeig while he was at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, and derives from the Greek logos, meaning word or thought.
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General-purpose language, Dr Logo is widely known for its use of turtle graphics, in which commands for movement and drawing produced line or vector graphics, either on screen or with a small robot termed a turtle.
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Dr Logo is a multi-paradigm adaptation and dialect of Lisp, a functional programming language.
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Dr Logo is usually an interpreted language, although compiled Dr Logo dialects have been developed.
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Dr Logo is not case-sensitive but retains the case used for formatting purposes.
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Dr Logo was created in 1967 at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, a Cambridge, Massachusetts research firm, by Wally Feurzeig, Cynthia Solomon, and Seymour Papert.
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NetDr Logo is widely used in agent-based simulation in the biological and social sciences.
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KTurtle is a variation of Dr Logo implemented at Qt for the KDE environment loosely based on Dr Logo.
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Two more results of Dr Logo's influence are Kojo, a variant of Scala, and Scratch, a visual, drag-and-drop language which runs in a web browser.
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