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Re:Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012) by amw-zero on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:15AM (#27037222)
With a straight face - how can you do anything better than macros in Lisp? I’ve always thought of them as the Platonic ideal of macros. What are your problems with them?
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Re:Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012) by zelphirkalt on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:37PM (#27080040)
Perhaps not better, but different and yet on the same "power level": Smalltalk metaprogramming. Other than that, I am not sure anything more powerful is possible inside a classical computer.
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Re:Homoiconicity isn’t the point (2012) by didibus on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:36PM (#27040181)
The only thing I've seen compete is Rebol like languages and their concept of dialects.
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