PILOT was Re: OT: Language for the ages

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > > Actually, Logo is far more capable than Pilot.  Pilot is just
> > > plain retarded.
> >
> > Let's be fair. PILOT was never intended as a general purpose language. It
> > was intended from the get-go purely for CAI. Things were drafted on later as
> > people saw the need.
> 
> Eh.  Where was PILOT actually used?  It just seems so damn icky to me.

Actually, I was only half-joking. There are some properties of PILOT that
make it useful for task wizards and the like, with suitable extensions. It's
a strange language, but I've never found it ill-conceived, per se.

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