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diff --git a/lang/ici/pkg-descr b/lang/ici/pkg-descr index 12eb6d6a02cf..813af1b7a6c5 100644 --- a/lang/ici/pkg-descr +++ b/lang/ici/pkg-descr @@ -1,5 +1,16 @@ -This is Tim Long's ICI language interpreter. ICI is a dynamic interpretive -language with control flow structures and expression syntax derived from C. -ICI offers useful inbuilt data types, automatic memory management (garbage -collection), error handling and other handy features. ICI is in the public -domain, there is no copyright on it. +ICI is a C-like, high level language originally developed by Tim +Long and placed into the public domain. ICI marries C's expression +syntax, control structures and overall feel, with a dynamic, garbage +collected, object-based, data model. + +ICI is typically used as a scripting-like language in the fashion +of Perl, Python, TCL and other such languages. ICI can be called +from C and the language itself can be extended allowing applications +to provide domain specific functions, types and operators for use +in their ICI programs. Embedding in an application also allows the +application to make use of ICI's efficient object system which +provides many useful facilities. + +ICI is in the public domain, there is no copyright on it. + +URL: http://www.zeta.org.au/~atrn/ici/ |