RoBOTL Home Page

• RoBOTL is an on-going language experiment that attempts to blend Karel the Robot, as developed by Richard E. Pattis of Stanford University, with the object-oriented paradigm and the C/C++ language syntax.

• RoBOTL is being developed through the collaborative effort of:
  • Professor Karen Lemone of WPI's Computer Science Department in Worcester, MA
  • Walter S. Ching, a Senior S/W Engineer at Raytheon Electronic Systems in Marlboro, MA

• RoBOTL was presented in a poster session at ACM SIGCSE'96 conference in Philadelphia, PA, on 16 February 1996.

• RoBOTL was taught for the first time to students at WPI's Frontiers in Computer Science class during the Summer of 1996.

• See the Official On-Line RoBOTL Reference Guide at http://www.ma.ultranet.com/~n1hbr/robotl/refguide.htm.

• A demonstration RoBOTL compiler/simulator is available for PC/DOS platforms. Sorry, but no other platforms are supported at this time.

• RoBOTL is not a commercial product. Raytheon Electronic Systems' sole interest and involvement with RoBOTL was the funding of Ching's graduate studies at WPI which led to the collaboration with Professor Lemone, and the funding for Ching to attend SIGCSE'96.

• Karen Lemone
  Computer Science Department
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  100 Institute Road
  Worcester, MA 01609
  kal@cs.wpi.edu

• Walter S. Ching
  Raytheon Electronic Systems
  1001 Boston Post Road
  Marlboro, MA 01752-3770
  Walter_S_Ching@ccmail.res.ray.com