Wait, I'm wrong. Brian Harvey's home page has a link for UCBLogo for the XO.

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/
ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/ucblogo/ucblogo-4.xo

I'll go try it out.

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Daniel Ajoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:00:02 -0500, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> From: "Edward Cherlin"
>>
>> 2008/12/23 michel paul :
>>> http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education
>>>
>>> "Computing education benefits all students, not just those interested in
>>> pursuing computer science or information technology careers," said Bobby
>>> Schnabel, chair of ACM's Education Policy Committee (EPC).
>>
>> Thanks. I'll invite them to join Earth Treasury's digital textbook
>> project for the OLPC XO + Sugar. We have Smalltalk, Python, and FORTH
>> standard on the XO, and we can add anything else of interest. Well,
>> not Ada or C++, but those aren't of interest to third graders.
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Creating_textbooks
>
>
> I don't think FORTH comes with the XO by default. I've the Mexico and Uruguay 
> images and I haven't seen it. What's the name of it's executable?
>
> Smalltalk only comes if Etoys is installed.
>
> What does come is another very nice language, in my opinion. It is
> * typeless
> * interpreted
> * small
> * manages memory automatically
> * does conversions between numbers and strings automatically
> * can connect to the internet
> * can pipe in and out of commands and files.
> * it has hashes, and arrays are just hashes of numbers.
>
> the language is called awk, and the interpreter gawk
>
> now that I think of it, there is another programming language that comes by 
> default: javascript.
>
>
>> APL is
>> coming. Scheme is pretty easy. What else would you like?
>
> UCBLogo is Scheme without parethesis (and with dynamic scope, instead of 
> lexical scope)
> http://wiki.laptop.org/images/e/e5/Ucblogo-4.xo
>
> The problem is that is it not sugarized yet.
>
>
> and the LogoFE library for Logo makes is very much like APL. LogoFE is 
> already in Spanish the language spoken in Uruguay, Colombia and Perú, where 
> the XO has had deployments.
>
>
> Daniel
>
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