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In article <4325@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> ph@physiology.oxford.ac.uk (Patrick Haggard) writes:
>In article <14779@ksr.com> chuck@ksr.com (Chuck Shavit) writes:
>
>>I am looking for beta testers for a logo-like language and environment that
>>I have implemented on the Mac.  The environment is known as LogoMation, but
>>I will probably change the name because it really is not logo.
>>
>	Can you say what kind of applications you envisage for this
>environment?  Presumably that is related to what sort of beta-testers
>you want to use.
>Patrick

LogoMation is to be used by the same people that use Logo, namely young
people doing their first steps in programming.  The reason that people may
prefer LogoMation to Logo, as I hope they will, are

  *  LogoMation has IMHO a better syntax (if you love Lisp, you will like
     Logo and will not like LogoMation.  And vice versa).

  *  LogoMation has built-in animation and sounds.  For example, if you
     have a piece of code that draws a picture, then one additional
     LogoMation line will make it a picture, and another LogoMation command
     will make the "turtle" movement commands move the picture in various
     modes and speeds.  If you believe in teaching kids through play, then
     LogoMation is the right tool.

  *  LogoMation was designed from ground up as a friendly Mac application
     (and there is no reason it cannot be made Windows friendly).  Its
     editor knows about the language and help you beautify and indent, its
     Paste function can paste both texts and pictures from other
     applications (so that you can animate your KidPix pictures, for
     example), it is integrated with the Mac's Color Chooser, Sound
     Manager, etc.

LogoMation can also be used for preparing animated presentations, e.g. in
science courses, marketing and the like.  However, there are many tools in
the market that support animated presentations, and it is not clear to me
that LogoMation has a significant edge unless the user likes programming.

Chuck Shavit