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All examples in both Hy and Python. I have been using Lisp languages for 30 years for AI development but recently most of my work requires Python (for deep learning). The Hy language (Lisp that compiles to Python) allows Lisp programmers access to the ric... (more…)

I wonder how many people realize that Python is has a lot of syntactic sugar? I'm not claiming it's like a Lisp-based language where the syntax is as bare bones as possible (although the Lisp comparison is not entirely unfounded), but much of Python's syn... (more…)

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