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2001 FREENIX Track Technical Program - Abstract
Nickle: Language Principles and Pragmatics
Bart Massey, Portland State University, and Keith Packard, SuSE Inc.
Abstract
Nickle is a vaguely C-like programming language for numerical applications, useful both as a desk calculator and as a prototyping and
implementation language for numerical and semi-numerical algorithms. Nickle abstracts a number of useful features from a wide variety of
other programming languages, particularly functional languages. Nickle's design principles and implementation pragmatics mesh nicely to
form a language filling a useful niche in the UNIX software environment. The history of Nickle is also an instructive example of the
migration of an application from an idea to a freely-available piece of software
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