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		casey2 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tree Calculus The point of tree calculus as I understand is that all programs are valid data structures, so they can be modified and analyzed during runtime with nothing but other programs.

adastra22 9 months ago [–]

That is also true of Lisp. And Forth. And a dozen other homoiconic languages.

fmoralesc 9 months ago | [–]

Any Turing-complete language should be able to express programs that do this.

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