gnu/packages/nickle.scm

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  18
  19 (define-module (gnu packages nickle)
  20   #:use-module (gnu packages)
  21   #:use-module (gnu packages readline)
  22   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
  23   #:use-module (guix download)
  24   #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
  25   #:use-module (guix packages))
  26
  27 (define-public nickle
  28   (package
  29     (name "nickle")
  30     (version "2.77")
  31     (source (origin
  32               (method url-fetch)
  33               (uri (string-append "https://nickle.org/release/nickle-"
  34                                   version ".tar.gz"))
  35               (sha256
  36                (base32
  37                 "0rhij7cn1zkn8wzxyjkamz9fs262zyg80p6v6i864hdalg4plpm3"))))
  38     (build-system gnu-build-system)
  39     (native-inputs
  40      `(("readline" ,readline)))
  41     (synopsis "Numeric oriented programming language")
  42     (description
  43      "Nickle is a programming language based prototyping environment with
  44 powerful programming and scripting capabilities.  Nickle supports a variety of
  45 datatypes, especially arbitrary precision numbers.  The programming language
  46 vaguely resembles C.  Some things in C which do not translate easily are
  47 different, some design choices have been made differently, and a very few
  48 features are simply missing.  Nickle provides the functionality of Unix bc, dc
  49 and expr in a different form.  It is also an ideal environment for prototyping
  50 complex algorithms.  Nickle's scripting capabilities make it a replacement for
  51 spreadsheets in some applications, and its numeric features complement the
  52 limited numeric functionality of text-oriented languages such as AWK and Perl.")
  53     (home-page "https://nickle.org/")
  54     (license license:expat)))