15. The system according to claim 12 including a display device connected to the robot controller, for displaying instruction lines of the numerical control language program and the robot language program.
12. A system for controlling a robot based upon a numerical control language program comprising: a robot; a robot controller connected to the robot for controlling the robot according to a robot language program; a mass storage device connected to the robot controller for storing the numerical control language program; and a control program executed by the robot controller for converting the numerical control language program into the robot language program based upon a pre-defined conversion configuration table having discrete configuration instructions for converting each numerical control language positional command to a robot language positional command and converting each numerical control language miscellaneous code command to a robot language sub-program.