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- Clarify COMMENT and port description
- Assume maintainership
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@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 much-improved
form.  It is also an ideal environment for prototyping complex algorithms.
Nickle's scripting capabilities make it a nice replacement for spreadsheets
in some applications, and its numeric features nicely complement the limited
numeric functionality of text-oriented languages such as AWK and Perl.

WWW: http://www.nickle.org/
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@Update MASTER_SITES

PR: 26738
Submitted by: Christopher Elkins <chrise@@scardini.com>
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Nickle is a desk calculator language with powerful programming 
and scripting capabilities. Nickle supports a variety of datatypes, 
especially arbitrary precision numbers. The input language vaguely 
resembles C.
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WWW: http://www.nickle.org/release/
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@add nickle
A desk calculator language

PR:		26632
Submitted by:	Christopher Elkins <chrise@@scardini.com>
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WWW: http://nickle.keithp.com/
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