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nickle in the 5c locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Jul 27 11:02:55 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:58:35 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200107271458.KAA06362@multics.mit.edu>
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
I've installed nickle,
"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. 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",
in the 5c locker (not the nickle locker -- that's Nicole Immorlica).
See "http://www.nickle.org".
An outgrowth of ic which some of you (6.270!) may be familiar with,
nickle is brought to you by Keith Packard and Bart Massey.
Build for Linux, Solaris, and IRIX, do let me know if other platform
builds are required. Bug reports to <bug-sipb@mit.edu>
The nickle paper was presented at this year's USENIX FreeNIX track.
--jhawk
