Update : Fixed a number of bugs by help of bart.

Update : By blazar's advice, removed the exit 0; at the end. CB questioning revealed it to be unneccessary(sp?). Well, learned something new... guess it's my Pascal habit of ending my scripts.

Update : I think g0n, having quite some experience in building (be it evil) robots, would perhaps be best-suited for building the Linux-running dishwashbot.
According to g0n, this, ummm... wouldn't work. Yes. Any volunteers? ;-)

As seen in Level 26: Saint, there is a growing problem
in the Monastery since no one dares to clean the dishes
because of Mr. Bones.

I wrote a little script to automate it. Now if a tech-monk
could perhaps build the robot to do it?

This is not meant to run, there might be mistakes in it, I'm only a novice to Perl. Have fun.

-- Detonite

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use kitchen qw(kitchenSink); #imports kitchen stuff we need

my $sink = new kitchenSink;
my @dirties = kitchenSink->get('DIRTIES'); #get all dirty dishes and o
+ther utensils

if(@dirties) { #there're dirty dishes!
  my @tub = new $sink->tub; #cleaning tub
  my @clean = new $sink->dryrack;
  push(@tub, $sink->liquid_soap);
  push(@tub, $sink->faucet(water('HOT')));
  push(@tub, $sink->brush);
  while(@dirties) {
    push(@tub, shift @dirties );
    while(dirty($tub[-1])) {
      clean($tub[-1]) 
    }
    push(@clean, pop @tub ); #add to dry rack
  }
  while(@clean) {
    put_away($_, getLocation($_)); #returns cleaned item, involves $dr
+yingCloth
  }
}

print "We're done!\n";
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