gnu/packages/nickle.scm

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  19
  20 (define-module (gnu packages nickle)
  21   #:use-module (gnu packages)
  22   #:use-module (gnu packages readline)
  23   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
  24   #:use-module (guix download)
  25   #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
  26   #:use-module (guix packages))
  27
  28 (define-public nickle
  29   (package
  30     (name "nickle")
  31     (version "2.82")
  32     (source (origin
  33               (method url-fetch)
  34               (uri (string-append "https://nickle.org/release/nickle-"
  35                                   version ".tar.gz"))
  36               (sha256
  37                (base32
  38                 "0jy96z01qbrnmsrywn5mfa14615qdix6b8520qd65c6yjyrk8gs0"))))
  39     (build-system gnu-build-system)
  40     (native-inputs
  41      `(("readline" ,readline)))
  42     (synopsis "Numeric oriented programming language")
  43     (description
  44      "Nickle is a programming language based prototyping environment with
  45 powerful programming and scripting capabilities.  Nickle supports a variety of
  46 datatypes, especially arbitrary precision numbers.  The programming language
  47 vaguely resembles C.  Some things in C which do not translate easily are
  48 different, some design choices have been made differently, and a very few
  49 features are simply missing.  Nickle provides the functionality of Unix bc, dc
  50 and expr in a different form.  It is also an ideal environment for prototyping
  51 complex algorithms.  Nickle's scripting capabilities make it a replacement for
  52 spreadsheets in some applications, and its numeric features complement the
  53 limited numeric functionality of text-oriented languages such as AWK and Perl.")
  54     (home-page "https://nickle.org/")
  55     (license license:expat)))