This is true - I once wrote something like that in a common lisp but never got it past the half-assed but useful.
Similarly (but painfully and never completely successful), see all the c++ expression template approaches to linear algebra. After 15 years or so some of them are quite usable but retain some of the pain.
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Native matrix syntax and operations is a huge plus, IMHO.
This is true - I once wrote something like that in a common lisp but never got it past the half-assed but useful.
Similarly (but painfully and never completely successful), see all the c++ expression template approaches to linear algebra. After 15 years or so some of them are quite usable but retain some of the pain.