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From: jbn@GLACIER.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
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Subject: Re: Robotic Language
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Date: 5 Dec 88 17:16:08 GMT
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      There are a number of commercial robotic languages, such as VAL 
(Unimate) and AML (IBM).  They are all terrible.  They tend to be 
interpreters for BASIC-like programming languages with extra statements and
data types thrown in to cope with geometry and machine control.


					John Nagle