One striking similarly Elixir has to lisp style languages is the macro system. You have quoted and unquoted expressions just like lisp.
And like lisp most of Elixir, down to the low level stuff like if statements, modules, and so on, is built up from a few primitives.
Here are the primitives that the Elixir language is built from:
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/Kernel.SpecialForms.html
One striking similarly Elixir has to lisp style languages is the macro system. You have quoted and unquoted expressions just like lisp.
And like lisp most of Elixir, down to the low level stuff like if statements, modules, and so on, is built up from a few primitives.
Here are the primitives that the Elixir language is built from:
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/Kernel.SpecialForms.html