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diff --git a/lang/nickle/pkg-descr b/lang/nickle/pkg-descr index 371b17e3c11f..ac20410ae8a3 100644 --- a/lang/nickle/pkg-descr +++ b/lang/nickle/pkg-descr @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ -Nickle is a desk calculator language with powerful programming -and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a variety of datatypes, -especially arbitrary precision numbers. The input language vaguely -resembles C. +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. -WWW: http://www.nickle.org/release/ +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. + +WWW: http://www.nickle.org/ |