Karel - Programming language

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...

Tags: programming language
Early development of Karel happened 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

Language features

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