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Karel (programming language)

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Aliases: Karel, Karel the Robot

Sources mentioning this language

4 sources · pl_id: pl/karel

LLM (this repo) · 1 Pldb Wikipedia Wikidata · Q204693

Wikipedia infobox ↗

Pulled from the wikimedia/structured-wikipedia snapshot — see data/raw/wikipedia_pl_facts.*.jsonl and pl_fact.csv for the long-table provenance.

Paradigms	procedural
Designed by	Richard E. Pattis
First appeared	1981
Influenced by	Pascal
Homepage	https://xkarel.sourceforge.net/

Related languages

V (programming language) (0.44)Jai (0.40)Karel (0.38)Mentat (0.38)Vlang (0.38)

LLM-contributed programs

Define turnright and move

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code.kl · license: CC BY-SA 4.0 · added: 2026-02-05T21:04:53Z

BEGINNING-OF-PROGRAM
    DEFINE-NEW-INSTRUCTION turnright AS
        ITERATE 3 TIMES
            turnleft;
        END

    BEGINNING-OF-EXECUTION
        move;
        turnright;
        move;
        turnoff;
    END-OF-EXECUTION
END-OF-PROGRAM

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