gnu/packages/nickle.scm


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;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 <ngillmann@runbox.com>
;;;
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(define-module (gnu packages nickle)
  #:use-module (gnu packages)
  #:use-module (gnu packages readline)
  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
  #:use-module (guix download)
  #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
  #:use-module (guix packages))

(define-public nickle
  (package
    (name "nickle")
    (version "2.77")
    (source (origin
              (method url-fetch)
              (uri (string-append "https://nickle.org/release/nickle-"
                                  version ".tar.gz"))
              (sha256
               (base32
                "0rhij7cn1zkn8wzxyjkamz9fs262zyg80p6v6i864hdalg4plpm3"))))
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
    (native-inputs
     `(("readline" ,readline)))
    (synopsis "Numeric oriented programming language")
    (description
     "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 a different form.  It is also an ideal environment for prototyping
complex algorithms.  Nickle's scripting capabilities make it a replacement for
spreadsheets in some applications, and its numeric features complement the
limited numeric functionality of text-oriented languages such as AWK and Perl.")
    (home-page "https://nickle.org/")
    (license license:expat)))