Bruce Cohen wrote:

> The whole point of Boxer and Logo before it
> is to provide a way for schoolchildren to learn about computing by
> doing it,

I won't speak for boxer but Logo was never intended to teach kids about
computing. 

It was intended to give kids a microworld to play with math in and later
it became a place where you could think about thinking, and learning.
(see 'Mindstorms' and 'The Children's Machine' by S. Papert)

One reason, IMHO, Logo failed to capture the minds of mainstream
educator is because it did become about teaching kids computing. No one
could see the point of teaching 3rd graders how to program and if you
were going to teach them how to program shouldn't you teach a
'commercial' language like ... (fill in your favorite here: c, java,
etc.). 

If squeak becomes 'about computing' (at least as far as the kids go) it
to will suffer the same fate as Logo before it, even before it gets out
the door.

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