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

Compass rings a very faint bell.
MIXAL - you may win with obscurity with that one.

I have heard of SNOBOL - variant of COBOL.
Then there is the unfortunately named MUMPS.
Has anybody else heard of JORF?

- Michael