[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of New Scripting Language

[artem]

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Artem V. Andreev <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: New Scripting Language
System name: nsl
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

The project I am offering to you is called a New Scripting Language (abb. NSL). 
Its aim is to provide a flexible, multi-purpose but light-weight script 
language with particular accent on multilingual text processing. It uses a 
paradigm of finite-state automata to describe complex string transformations 
and recognition patterns, so making interencoding translations, locale-specific 
case-conversions and collation is easy enough. The language is fully 
interpreted, it provides all the features a decent structured language should 
have: procedures, control statements, global and local variables and even the 
notion of modules. It is flexible and allow attaching extension modules which 
might be e.g. wrappers to any system library. One of its distinct features is 
that it operates not on plain text (like Perl, awk, tcl etc) but on 
HTML/XML-structured streams whose physical layout may be at all different. It 
also have some inherent capabilities for CGI programming. It is really 
light-weight: its stripped binary should be less than 100k. 



It is now hosted on SourceForge (you\'ll find it on http://nsl.sourceforge.net 
and http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsl), but I am really definite to quit SF, 
since its users are really unwilling to send any feedback (I mean words not 
money, of course), so hosting on SF seems to me useless. Hope that GNU-based 
community will be more interested...