I have no idea what these VEX robots are, but ROBOTC is the language that was developed at Carnegie-Mellon. The goal of the language was to make a language that was easy to use to program robots.

A new version of the ROBOTC robot programming language gives students the ability to develop for a range of robot platforms. The new environment boasts high performance and rich features, and should ...

Robot programming is many students' first exposure to the world of computer programming. As with so much of the computing world, however, different robot platforms are generally incompatible.