What is "ecl"

ECL may refer to:

In programming languages:

• ECL programming language, an extensible programming language
• ECL (data-centric programming language)
• Embeddable Common Lisp, an implementation of the Lisp programming language

In other uses:

• Eastern Colored League, a Negro League in the United States when professional baseball was segregated
• Eastern Counties League, a football league in East Anglia, England
• Ecolab, a sanitation supply company
• École centrale de Lyon, a graduate engineering school in Lyon, France
• Educational Community License, an open source license issued to academic institutions for otherwise copyrighted material
• Emitter-coupled logic, an electronic logic family
• Electrochemiluminescence, a kind of luminescence produced during electrochemical reactions in solutions
• Enhanced Chemoluminescence
• Enterochromaffin-like cell, a gastric cell
• Exit Control List, a list of people prohibited from exiting Pakistan
• Effective Character Level, a term from Dungeons and Dragons series of role-playing games
• European Consortium for the Certificate of Attainment in Modern Languages, also known as the ECL Consortium
• Enjoying Cabin Lifestyle, a relaxation methodology.

ECL is a declarative, data centric programming language designed in 2000 to allow a team of programmers to process big data across a high performance computing cluster without the programmer being involved in many of the lower level, imperative decisions.