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Re:Grammars for Programming Languages (2018) by chubot on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:09PM (#22113201)
I feel like that's a counterexample to the OP's claims? AFAICT he was saying that homoiconicity in Lisp enables DSLs which enables code compression.

But those languages aren't homoiconic and I would probably call them DSLs themselves, not as general purpose as Lisp, Python, or C.

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Re:Grammars for Programming Languages (2018) by carapace on Saturday January 25, 2020 @07:27PM (#22149566)
Mmm... I'm not convinced. What about arcfide's Co-dfns compiler? https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns

It kinda counts as homoiconic, eh?

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