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My two cents worth:

While most discussion of Logo and teaching focusses on young students, I
think that it (or a tidied up, O-O successor) could be used to teach
systems programming to college/university students.  When I were a lad,
you could get *and read* the source for Unix, for my favourite (slightly
flaky) Pascal compiler, and for the PDP-11 screen handlers and editors
that we all used.  Today, the source for any modern Unix would take
months to read, and longer to understand; gcc is as big as it is clever,
and who's read through enough of X to really know how it works, and
still has a normal social life?

How difficult would it be to build a small post-Unix operating system in
Logo? A compiler construction toolkit? A small windowing system? AFS?
Put those together, along with texts of the quality of Harvey or Abelson
and diSessa, and you would have the core of a coherent, forward-looking
curriculum.  And who knows? Give it all a decade or two to incubate, and
it might take over the world like Unix and C did :-). 

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