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  1. adj. of a programming language exhibiting homoiconicity

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  • “Enjoy the power and expressiveness of homoiconic languages.”

    Reflective Surface - Archives: 2009 August

  • “You will never really understand the power and expressiveness of homoiconic languages until you have spent forty years straight debugging some heisenbug.”

    Reflective Surface - Archives: 2009 August

  • “You non-homoiconic code is elegant, but not that elegant.”

    Reflective Surface - Archives: 2009 August

  • “Because Lisp is homoiconic we treat code exactly like data in that (. getRed obj) is nothing more than a list whos first item is. getRed and the second is obj.”

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  • “The consistent homoiconic syntax makes it easier for both programmers and programs to understand and manipulate the code.”

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  • “I think I really totally understand the value of being homoiconic, and the awesome power of macros, and the notion of the reader.”

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  • “In other words, the program is spending most of its time using Java's regex machinery to grind away at all that text input; which is I think what you'd like to see. crowing exultantly on Twitter, feeling like a rockin 'sockin' functional-programming 'concurrin' homoiconic wizard.”

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  • “So no, it is not circular and it is still homoiconic too.”

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  • “CHROME, being a homoiconic language not to be confused with a homo icon, though, actually uses IRON as its syntax; CHROME programmers will write in the IRON textual notation.”

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  • “But trust me, twenty years from now, you’ll look back at all the code you have written and wish you had used a homoiconic language.”

    Reflective Surface - Use dynamic languages

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