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Summary

Logo is an educational programming language[1]. Logo draws 2,752 Wikipedia views per month (educational programming language category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Seymour Papert[3], Wally Feurzeig[4]
  • Influenced by: Lisp[5]
  • Instance of: functional programming language[6], programming language[7]
  • Named after: logos[8]
  • Developer: Seymour Papert[9], Idit Harel Caperton[10], Cynthia Solomon[11]
  • Designed by: Wally Feurzeig[12], Seymour Papert[13], Cynthia Solomon[14]
  • Commons category: Logo (programming language)[15]
  • Inception: 1967[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Logo (programming language)[17]
  • Different from: Logo[18]
  • Programming paradigm: functional programming[19], procedural programming[20], reflective programming[21]
  • Typing discipline: dynamic typing[22]

Why It Matters

Logo has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Logo is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Logo has been cited as an influence by Scratch[25], a visual programming language[26], founded in 2003[27]; Smalltalk[28], an object-based language[29], founded in 1972[30]; Processing[31], an object-based language[32], founded in 2001[33]; Snap![34], a programming language[35], founded in 2011[36]; Microsoft Small Basic[37], a programming language[38], founded in 2008[39]; and REBOL[40], a multi-paradigm programming language[41], founded in 1997[42].

FAQs

Who did Logo influence?

Logo has been cited as an influence by Scratch[25], Smalltalk[28], Processing[31], and Snap![34].

Related Entities

AgentSheets Atari LOGO Cynthia Solomon educational programming language functional programming language Kojo KTurtle Lisp Microsoft Small Basic NetLogo Pencil Code procedural programming Processing programming language REBOL Robic Scratch Seymour Papert Smalltalk Snap! Snap4Arduino Squeak StarLogo UCBLogo Wally Feurzeig

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [11] ↑ . ncwit.org. Retrieved . ncwit.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [14] ↑ . ncwit.org. Retrieved . ncwit.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  1. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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  6. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  5. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  11. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Developer → Seymour Papert, Idit Harel Caperton, Cynthia Solomon
    Sourceforge project → logo3d
    Typing discipline → dynamic typing
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