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diff --git a/development/nickle/README b/development/nickle/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..36fa97be21 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/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. |