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Nickle is a programming language based prototyping environment with powerful
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programming and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a variety of
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datatypes, especially arbitrary precision numbers. The programming language
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vaguely resembles C. Some things in C which do not translate easily are
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different, some design choices have been made differently, and a very few
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features are simply missing.
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Nickle provides the functionality of Unix bc, dc, and expr in much-improved
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form. It is also an ideal environment for prototyping complex algorithms.
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Nickle's scripting capabilities make it a nice replacement for spreadsheets
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in some applications, and its numeric features nicely complement the limited
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numeric functionality of text-oriented languages such as AWK and Perl.
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WWW: http://www.nickle.org/
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