Yes you can make that with Elephant by Max Smirnov : a nodes System! ;)
You can make with it any parametrical things ! ;)

And of course like DC you must code for create them or not if you want just use them! ;)

http://moiscript.weebly.com/biblio-elephant.html

Else
- Transform Array, Scale Array can be also used for some cases!

- For few specific operations you can use the EdiFrame or the function Transform / Orient / Line Line
when no new creation of number of elements is necessary!
Here the marvelous Line-Line my favorite! :)
(Uniform (uniform deformation), Stretch (deformation) None (no deformation) are possible)