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