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Neel Krishnaswami <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: expat
Other License: 
Package: The Needle Programming Language
System name: needle
Type: non-GNU

Description:
Needle is a statically typed, higher-order functional, object-oriented 
language, with a multiple dispatch/generic function based OO model and a class 
system with parameterized classes and type inference to eliminate writing most 
type declarations. It is an awful lot like the offspring of a drunken one-night 
stand between CLOS and ML. It makes use of a lot of very recent research in 
programming language design, which I want to make these innovations available 
to people doing scripting style programming. Advanced language design research 
is no goo d until it successfully transitions into widespread use, and I mean 
to help push some of it into the wild. I\'ve implemented a bytecode compiler 
and interpreter, and am planning on giving a talk about Needle at the LL2 
language design workshop. I would like to set up a public repository from which 
people can download and play with Needle before the workshop begins. Needle 
currently has an implementation in Ocaml, but no significant runtime library.

You can download it from <http://neelk.dyndns.org:8080/needle-0.01.tgz>


Other Software Required:
Needle requires the Ocaml language to compile. Ocaml is a free and open-source 
functional language available from <http://www.ocaml.org>

Other Comments:
This is a resubmission of the project that Rudy Gevaert asked for, to fix some 
license bugs in my package.