Programming languages

• The Laptop comes with Python 2.5, as well as a Python interactive shell, Pippy. It also comes with Javascript in xulrunner, Squeak in Etoys, and Csound in TamTam. Turtle Art allows some concrete imperative programming by snapping graphical block elements together, but there is currently no LOGO equivalent.

• The laptop's bootloader is Open Firmware, which is a dialect of FORTH.

• Other general-purpose programming languages currently available as Free Software for Linux include LOGO, Smalltalk/gst, LISP/Scheme/Guile, Perl, Ruby, bash, awk, TCL, C, C++, Java, APL/A+/J, FORTH, FORTRAN, Ada, Haskell, Pascal, Erlang, Kaya, Lua, Oz, Ocaml, Pike, Scala, Slate, and SPL.

• Debian Jr. Programming (junior-programming) is a package of languages meant for children, including Logo and Littlewizard.

• Research has been done (links needed) on the use of APL, LISP, and LOGO, at least in elementary school classrooms.

Research on Logo, Effects and Efficacy

http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/pubs/papers/research_logo.html

Logo Memos

http://www.sonoma.edu/users/l/luvisi/logo/logo.memos.html