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<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">On 27 Jun 2006 at 4:30, edu-sig-request@python.org wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> > I always viewed Logo as a means to introduce programming within</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> > Logo's environment ... but not really practical outside of this</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> > (unlike Python).  I may have been prejudiced due to ignorance there.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> I don't think Papert is interested at all in Logo as a "language" </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> but only as a possible vehicule for the maths and exploration     </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> concepts behind it (to produce "hard-fun" "tools to think with"/  </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> microworlds / differential/kinesthesic approach, etc ). That's    </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> why I think it could have a great future with Python inside the   </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">> "turtles" concepts.                                               </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">I'm guessing that you are correct in this. Papert has never shown</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">much interest in Logo as a language. I've only seen him write to</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">the LogoForum once (a couple of weeks ago) and in the OLPC project</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">he is not pushing for Logo in it, but has started a section in the
wiki called "Learning learning".</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Daniel</span></font></div>
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