What is "cel"

"celluloid sheet for an animated cartoon," from celluloid; became current by c.1990 when they became collectible.

n. A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.

Cel is an object-oriented prototype-based programming language based on Self which was heavily influenced by Smalltalk. The goal was to create a version of Self that would run under a lot of operating systems without strong ties to the Self GUI for development. For example, one could create a simple command line application in Cel without the high-overhead of the Self-system.

The syntax was almost exactly that of Self. However, some of the common prototype patterns were specified as ASCII art symbols. See the examples on the link below. Also, the language was not image based. It used normal text source files to create programs. As of 2002 it is no longer being supported or developed, but the code is freely available and functional. The system worked on Windows, FreeBSD, and Linux. The language was started by Dru Nelson in 1998.

CEL may stand for:

• Carboxyl ester lipase or bile salt dependent lipase, an enzyme used in digestion
• Check engine light, a malfunction indicator lamp
• Chemin de Fer de l'Etat Libanais, the national railway network of the Lebanon
• China Energy Label
• Central Electronics Limited, India.
• Communications and Entertainment Limited, a defunct Australian home video company
• Comunidade do Escutismo Lusófono, the international community for scouting in Lusophone countries
• Chronic eosinophilic leukemia, an extremely rare cancer of the white blood cells

Cel may refer to:

• Cel, a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for animation purposes
• Cel programming language
• Cel Publishing, an imprint of VDM Publishing devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
• cel, the ISO-639 code for Celtic languages
• Cel (goddess), the Etruscan goddess of the earth

Cel was the Etruscan goddess of the earth. On the Etruscan calendar, the month of Celi (September) is likely named for her. Her Greek counterpart is Gaia and her Roman is Tellus.

In Etruscan mythology, Cel was the mother of the Giants. A bronze mirror from the 5th century BC depicts a theomachy in which Celsclan, "son of Cel," is a Giant attacked by Laran, the god of war. In Greek, "giant" comes from a word meaning "born from Gaia." Another mirror depicts anguiped Giants in the company of a goddess, possibly Cel, whose lower body is formed of vegetation.

In a sanctuary near Lake Trasimeno were found five votive bronze statuettes, some male and some female, dedicated to her as Cel Ati, "Mother Cel." The inscription on each reads mi celś atial celthi, "I [belong to, have been given] to Cel the mother, here [in this sanctuary]."

Cel appears on the Liver of Piacenza, a bronze model of a liver marked for the Etruscan practice of haruspicy. She is placed in House 13.