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chubot on Jan 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Grammars for Programming Languages (2018)

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.

carapace on Jan 26, 2020 [–]

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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