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authorRobby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>2013-07-08 01:33:36 -0500
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+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.