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diff --git a/development/nickle/slack-desc b/development/nickle/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..f2f4e8cff2071 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/nickle/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. +# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and +# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. +# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. + + |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| +nickle: Nickle (programming language) +nickle: +nickle: Nickle is a programming language based prototyping environment with +nickle: powerful programming and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a +nickle: variety of datatypes, especially arbitrary precision numbers. The +nickle: programming language vaguely resembles C. Some things in C which do +nickle: not translate easily are different, some design choices have been made +nickle: differently, and a very few features are simply missing. Nickle pro- +nickle: vides the functionality of UNIX bc, dc and expr in much-improved form. +nickle: +nickle: http://nickle.org/ |