Promoting Python

Tue Apr 5 08:31:05 EDT 2016

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>:
> 	For the OP: Very few languages have built-in graphics commands;
> which is why porting BASIC programs was so difficult. This means you
> have to import some graphical framework and use ITS command functions.

The Racket dialect of the Scheme programming language has an interesting
approach:
 | > (circle 10)
 | ⚪
 [...]
 | > (rectangle 10 20)
 | ▯
 [...]
 | > (hc-append (circle 10) (rectangle 10 20))
 | ⚪▯
 <URL: https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/>
Follow the link for more elaborate examples.
Marko