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-NQP, short for "Not Quite Perl", is a lightweight Perl 6-like
-environment for virtual machines. NQP is designed to be very small (as
-compared with, say, perl6 or Rakudo) and is focused on being a
-high-level way to create compilers and libraries for MoarVM, the JVM,
-and others.
+NQP, short for "Not Quite Perl", is a compiler toolchain for MoarVM, the
+JVM, and others.
By default, support for MoarVM is built. The JVM backend is experimental
-and requires JDK 8.
+and requires a recent JDK.
BACKENDS=moar,jvm ./nqp.SlackBuild