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author | Mathew Holleran <mathew.holleran@gmail.com> | 2013-03-11 21:13:25 -0400 |
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committer | dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-03-22 07:16:45 -0400 |
commit | f300d2d29e2dc55e124046adff83bd68279c202b (patch) | |
tree | 2f3db1e9558cf844119d6020cbc88c0a116c9af7 /system/nickle/README | |
parent | 1c1608eff8fffbd19371293e9f9261fc48daea73 (diff) | |
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system/nickle: Added (programming language)
Signed-off-by: dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/system/nickle/README b/system/nickle/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..36fa97be21 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/nickle/README @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Nickle is a programming language based prototyping environment with +powerful programming and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a +variety of datatypes, especially arbitrary precision numbers. + +The programming language vaguely resembles C. Some things in C which do +not translate easily are different, some design choices have been made +differently, and a very few features are simply missing. + +Nickle provides the functionality of UNIX bc, dc and expr in much- +improved form. It is also an ideal environment for prototyping complex +algorithms. Nickle's scripting capabilities make it a nice replacement +for spreadsheets in some applications, and its numeric features nicely +complement the limited numeric functionality of text-oriented languages +such as AWK and PERL. |