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kazinator provided examples in two recent k threads:

Thanks. I'd love to see some polyglot comparisons with TXR and other languages commonly used for data processing like Perl and Python.

https://rosettacode.org features numerous tasks solved in numerous languages. Some 136 Rosetta tasks are solved in TXR.

Link to save you some searching:

That page is prepared using two TXR programs, which happen to be checked in side-by-side:

Suck down the data, print it in a condensed format on standard output:

Generate pages with frames from above data:

The workflow is to fetch the solutions into a new file and then to use a text merging tool like meld to update the stable copy.