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author | Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-08-07 12:25:26 +0000 |
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committer | Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-08-07 12:25:26 +0000 |
commit | b4a816771827116bb98eb6be648af2ea09c7e852 (patch) | |
tree | ce8ce02fbb9db071663df69a12dd6f6e916f0760 /lang/nickle | |
parent | - Update to 2.9.21.1 (diff) |
- Canonicalize Makefile header
- Clarify COMMENT and port description
- Assume maintainership
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=218198
Diffstat (limited to 'lang/nickle')
-rw-r--r-- | lang/nickle/Makefile | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lang/nickle/pkg-descr | 18 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lang/nickle/Makefile b/lang/nickle/Makefile index f070e662de85..38c73b203455 100644 --- a/lang/nickle/Makefile +++ b/lang/nickle/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# New ports collection makefile for: nickle -# Date created: 16 April 2001 -# Whom: Christopher Elkins <chrise@scardini.com> +# New ports collection makefile for: Nickle +# Date created: 16 April 2001 +# Whom: Christopher Elkins <chrise@scardini.com> # # $FreeBSD$ # @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ PORTVERSION= 2.56 CATEGORIES= lang MASTER_SITES= http://www.nickle.org/release/ -MAINTAINER= ports@FreeBSD.org -COMMENT= A desk calculator language +MAINTAINER= danfe@FreeBSD.org +COMMENT= A numeric oriented programming language USE_GMAKE= yes GNU_CONFIGURE= yes diff --git a/lang/nickle/pkg-descr b/lang/nickle/pkg-descr index 371b17e3c11f..ac20410ae8a3 100644 --- a/lang/nickle/pkg-descr +++ b/lang/nickle/pkg-descr @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ -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. +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. -WWW: http://www.nickle.org/release/ +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/ |