>>>I don't know what Turtle Logo is, but I have a mental picture of a desert tortoise with a Nike logo on his shell.
>>>That would be cool, so heck yes, endorse me for Turtle Logo!
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>>Logo was a language designed for teaching kids programming. When my kids were in grade school, I taught it a few times for a 3-session after-school program.
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>>Tamar

Speaking of turtle graphics... I recall the couple hours spent meticulously entering a hexdump out of a magazine into a friend's Apple //c microcomputer. The hexdump (published in a magazine) was for a patch to AppleSoft BASIC to add turtle graphics commands to the interpreter.

>Awww, there ya go getting all serious :)
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>I bet we could get 20 far more obscure programming languages in this thread if we tried.

MIXAL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIXAL ) -- was used back in the 1980s for the computer science programme at UCLA. Does anybody else know of other places where it was used as part of the instructional programme?

Any other folks who have used COMPASS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMPASS ) ?