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From: abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,comp.lang.pascal,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Karel the Robot
Keywords: Wanted, Karel
Message-ID: <2025@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 30 May 89 14:46:21 GMT
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Reply-To: abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura)
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In article <2021@csuna.csun.edu> abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott Neugroschl) writes:
>For those who don't know and love Karel, he is a poor developmentally
>disabled robot who can only move forward, turn left (right?), pick up

whichever it was, it's still the same.   For those who didn't know, you
had to define the other as a function of the one it knew:

    DEFINE-NEW-INSTRUCTION TurnLeft AS
	BEGINNING-OF-INSTRUCTION
	    ITERATE 3 TIMES
		TurnRight
	END-OF-INSTRUCTION

>a beeper (whatever that is), or put a beeper down.  The concept is
>by programming him, you can learn top down programming...
>
>
>I don't know where to find him, but we once blew him up... (we disguised
>a land mine so that it looked like a beeper)
>
>Boy was he surprised!
>
>Anyone from UCSC Fall Q 1983 who took CIS 12 with Goldberg remember the
>joys of Karel?
>
>
>-- 
>Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl
>UUCP:  ...!sm.unisys.com!csun!csuna.csun.edu!abcscnge
>-- Beat me, Whip me, make me code in Ada
>-- Disclaimers?  We don't need no stinking disclaimers!!!

There was one posted on comp.sources some time ago (back in '85 if I
recall correctly).  I Fiddled around with the program for a while before
getting fed up with the verbosity of Karel code, combined with its
tendency to be brain-dead (you couldn't write recursive code with it, no
variables).  I was working on putting aggressive commands into its
abilities - like instead of put-beeper it would use put-mine and have
multiple karel the Robots running around, but never got around to
finishing it.  Please don't ask me to post the sources to Karel because
all I've got is a printout I don't want to go and type it in.

For those who care, I was deranged enough to make a bunch of #defines so
I could have C programs that looked like Karel the robot code.  Of
course, it was all for a joke.

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