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Re:Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released by ashton314 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:06PM (#29827258)
You sir, are a legend.

I was particularly delighted to see how you built `defn` on top of existing metaprogramming functionality. This kind of thing has lead me to think of Elixir as a Lisp in Ruby's clothing running on the BEAM. :) I hope that's not too inaccurate. Were there any delightful "aha!" moments you got while building this?

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Re:Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released by b5n on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:27PM (#29829561)
You may be interested in LFE (lisp flavored erlang).

https://lfe.io/

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Re:Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released by sodapopcan on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:44PM (#29829848)
I think that is pretty accurate. If you forgo the `do/end` syntactic sugar, Elixir sorta kinda starts to almost kinda sorta resemble S expressions:

  defmodule Foo, do: (def foo(bar), do: bar; def bar(baz), do: baz)
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