Karel

Karel is a programming language created in 1981 by Richard E. Pattis.

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Karel is an educational programming language for beginners, created by Richard E. Pattis in his book Karel The Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Programming. Pattis used the language in his courses at Stanford University, California. Read more on Wikipedia...

Karel Wikipedia page
Karel first developed in University of California, Irvine
Karel on HOPL
See also: (4 related languages)Pascal, Java, JavaScript, RoboMind

Example from hello-world:

PROGRAM hello_world
BEGIN
  WRITE("Hello World", CR)
END hello_world

Example from Wikipedia:

BEGINNING-OF-PROGRAM
 
 DEFINE turnRight AS
 BEGIN
   turnLeft;
   turnLeft;
   turnLeft;
 END
 
 BEGINNING-OF-EXECUTION
   ITERATE 3 TIMES
   BEGIN
     turnRight;
     move
   END
   turnoff
 END-OF-EXECUTION
 
END-OF-PROGRAM

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	WRITE

Karel - Programming language

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