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The NSL (The New Scripting Language) is a scripting language intended
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primarily for processing text documents in various input formats and in
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various languages. It is being developed as to be as light-weight as possible,
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however, providing a possibility to solve a wide range of tasks. It can be
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used as a stand-alone tool, as well as a CGI engine. It is not intended to be
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embeddable like Tcl, but since the interpreter is very compact, it can be
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attached to an application without great overhead.
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The NSL should be easy to learn. Its syntax is much simplier than that of perl
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or even awk and is more like Tcl or csh. It has, however, some peculiarities
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in syntax, as well as in programming techniques, so it would probably require
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some time to get accustomed to.
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However, the NSL is not a quick-development language. Its core does not and
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shall not include 'complete solutions'. Inspite of its rather high level, it
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should be regarded as a toolbox by the means of which a programmer may
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implement what he wants. Only such approach (IMHO) may allow to keep the
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language small, efficient, easy both to learn and to use.
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WWW: http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/nsl/
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