CIEL

CIEL Is an Extended Lisp. Scripting with batteries included.

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CIEL Is an Extended Lisp. Scripting with batteries included.

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Hi o/ Hopefully the goal of CIEL is well explained. I use it daily (with the core image, in my editor), I ship products with it. It saves me a load of time, when I start a new…

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	1	2
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	0	4
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	0	3
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2026 (partial)	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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vindarel·Jan 2, 2026

> so many shortcomings and missing features I suggest to have a look at CIEL: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ -> CL, with batteries out of the box: http, json, csv, DB, functional data structures, regexp, pattern matching, missing docstrings, missing functions, easy script runner… and to Epsilon: https://github.com/jbouwman/epsilon/ > Epsilon is a Lisp programming environment built using SBCL that provides functional data structures and some encoding, cryptographic hashing and network programming capabilities.

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