What is the current status of LOGO? (The programming language)

Logo was one of the first languages I ever used, although only for drawing. Our classes were based on drawing simple geometric shapes (polygons), and simple pictures (e.g. a house, a car) - very interesting to a young programmer-child!

turtle is a modern implementation of Logo's turtle graphics in Python using Tk. It's part of the standard library, so if you have a Python install you can relive the good old days:

import turtle

for i in range(100):
    turtle.forward(i)
    turtle.left(15)

There are both object-oriented and procedural interfaces. It's still surprisingly fun.

Check out NetLogo, a modern multi-turtle Logo that allows programming simulations, animations, and games. See http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/ for samples of what you can build. There is an active user community at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/netlogo-users/

The number of Logo users out there isn't anywhere near as large as it is for popular, mainstream languages like Java and Python, but it's large enough to be viable and self-sustaining.

see also http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Logo.html

(note: I am the lead developer of NetLogo)

Yeah, I know. Nowadays this language is a bit antique but I got some warm and comfortable memories when I remembered this interesting language from my history. For a teenager back then, it was fun!

Geez, you must be old!

Just kidding … I do think all the information on Wikipedia is still accurate.

I also do think it is a dead language (or that it should be at least). As for the question about other experts who experienced it … I don't think it ever was a really used language. Maybe a bit at school, but still I think there's some better alternatives, so I think people who got to code using LOGO must be rare. Good luck with that.

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After looking it up, it does seem like it was still used quite a bit in university for robotic programming.