[starlogo-users] Linux & locale (Germanized version)

[Eric Klopfer]

Hi

You can get your hands on the source at the openstarlogo site -  
http://education.mit.edu/openstarlogo.  We've released the source  
code to the community, so you can change it if you'd like.  The linux  
version there may need a little updating, but the functionality is  
there (including applets in web pages).

It also has support for internationalization.  There is a japanese  
port on the openstarlogo site.

Eric

On Dec 10, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Wolfram Schwenzer wrote:

> Hi,
> Though I'm an old LOGO aficionado (since the days of Terrapin LOGO  
> for the Apple IIe) I'm new to StarLOGO
> (to behonest I've quitted reading 'bout it some years ago when its  
> vevelopment was confined to MSWindows).
> I have taught LOGO in computer "science" courses using MSWLOGO ,  
> both in English & German versions (you can
> easily write a translator between them using LOGO itself showing to  
> your ignorant, smiling colleagues how vastly more
> powerful this "kid's language" is in comparison to any BASIC  
> dialect I know of ;-) ...).
> But then I thought twice whether there was no way to get away from  
> operating system "bondage" (to show WHY just
> consider MSWLOGO's development which was heavily connected to  
> Borland's TASM using in-line  code  & which causes
> now headaches to  the team  who develops a new version as the  
> commercial product of this assembler is NO LONGER
> AVAILABLE. The only remedy against such a "low of fate"  is - to my  
> humble knowledge - NOT to use canned,
> commercial products but freeware tools which do not have this  
> merciless dependency upon the will & whims of the manufacturer :- 
> ( ....)
>
> The only operating system-independent LOGO has been - until now -  
> (and as far as I know, I'd like to be contradicted ;-) ...)
> UCBLOGO, which is still supported by Brian Harvey (good ol' chap, I  
> admire him really :-) ...) . Now Daniel Azuma tried his hands
> upon a Java version of LOGO which even allowed applets on HTML  
> pages, but which was no further developed though he made
> its sources public. Now I've read about a STARLOGO version all in  
> Java (I downloaded the Linux port today) and I would be glad to
> contact people who have installed it or used it or even worked with  
> the sources; I 've tried my hands on early Java some years ago,
> but the sheer bulk of its further development has left me  
> dumbfounded & irritated, so I need a little bit of encouragement to  
> enter
> the lion's - pardon me, the tiger's - cave again  ;-) ....
>
> I would also be willing/interested to share in translating docs/ 
> commands' sets etc. into German to ease & whet the youngster's  
> appetite
> here in Germany to try STARLOGO for a change & treat.
>
>    Yours friendly
>
> Wolfram Schwenzer
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