marcel

You can write shell scripts using marcel.

Yes, marcel now runs on MacOS.

Marcel is interpreted.

I was working on a project in which I needed to munge some data, producing a stream of (x, y) tuples, and then graph the data.

Thanks to two different pilot errors on my part, I have broken the packaging system of two OSes that package marcel.

For years, I kept hearing about iPython, as a vastly improved Python REPL.

Yes, the 8 Queens problem can be solved in marcel, as a one-liner even.

I was ruminating about adding "sessions" to marcel, in the last blog post.

A number of ideas floating around in my head are coming together around the idea of adding sessions to marcel.

Wow!

Suppose you need to read a CSV file and fix the data in one of the columns.

grep is very useful, and you can call it from marcel, e.g. grep "def render_compact" *.py Running this in marcel's marcel/object...

Marcel pipes carry streams of data between operators.

Most interaction with marcel involves the execution of a pipeline.

Marcel pipes streams of tuples between operators.