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A comment on Ask HN: LISPers, do you use homoiconicity (code-as-data)?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: LISPers, do you use homoiconicity (code-as-data)? by db48x on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @07:43AM (#25915170)
Yes, sometimes that suffices. Other times you have to translate an ad–hoc query language encoded in the query parameters of a url into SQL queries, and then it would be really nice to have some way of manipulating them other than just string concatenation. That's a month of my life I’ll never get back.
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Re:Ask HN: LISPers, do you use homoiconicity (code-as-data)? by harperlee on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @03:10AM (#25925560)
Ok, fair point, you don’t need it until you need it and you wish you had it :)
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