diff options
author | Shrivatsan V Sampathkumar <nastavs@gmail.com> | 2013-04-27 10:03:30 -0300 |
---|---|---|
committer | Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org> | 2013-04-27 10:03:30 -0300 |
commit | a90ce4148bf4ba3228ad8e4cf7e67129da14b6aa (patch) | |
tree | 98d3c6a9b315c4071b6042d23a3e60680c6e2d5c /development/nqp/slack-desc | |
parent | 332687608b9d607edbbc4c6f6fa5793959cf790d (diff) | |
download | slackbuilds-a90ce4148bf4ba3228ad8e4cf7e67129da14b6aa.tar.gz |
development/nqp: Added (Not Quite Perl)
Signed-off-by: Niels Horn <niels.horn@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'development/nqp/slack-desc')
-rw-r--r-- | development/nqp/slack-desc | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/development/nqp/slack-desc b/development/nqp/slack-desc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8f00878e08 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/nqp/slack-desc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: +# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. +# Line up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and +# the '|' on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. +# You must make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also +# customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines. + + |----------------------------------------------------------------------| +nqp: nqp (Not Quite Perl) +nqp: +nqp: This is "Not Quite Perl" -- a lightweight Perl 6-like environment +nqp: for virtual machines. The key feature of NQP is that it's +nqp: designed to be a very small environment (as compared with, say, perl6 +nqp: or Rakudo) and is focused on being a high-level way to create +nqp: compilers and libraries for virtual machines (such as the Parrot +nqp: Virtual Machine). Unlike a full-fledged implementation of Perl 6, +nqp: NQP strives to have as small a runtime footprint as it can, while +nqp: still providing a Perl 6 object model and regular expression engine +nqp: for the virtual machine. |