General Introduction

Besides the motivation for introducing a new robot language (which is discussed in the introduction to PASRO) we want to point out, that we haven’t chosen Pascal or C as programming languages, because they are particularly useful for robot programming. The reasons for using Pascal as a base for extension to robot programming are From a didactic point of view, Pascal is one of the best languages for teaching and learning programming.Pascal supports structured programming and top-down-design.Extensions can be done by defining new data types and functions.Programs are readable and Pascal is useful for programming simple and complex programs.The language Pascal is implemented on many computers and especially personal computers.