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- adjective of a programming language exhibiting
homoiconicity
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Examples
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Enjoy the power and expressiveness of homoiconic languages.
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You will never really understand the power and expressiveness of homoiconic languages until you have spent forty years straight debugging some heisenbug.
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Enjoy the power and expressiveness of homoiconic languages.
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You non-homoiconic code is elegant, but not that elegant.
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You non-homoiconic code is elegant, but not that elegant.
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You will never really understand the power and expressiveness of homoiconic languages until you have spent forty years straight debugging some heisenbug.
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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.
OdeToCode - The Best Links author unknown 2010
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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.
Planet Sun 2009
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