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Comment by marmaduke

> homoiconicity, meaning code can be represented as a data structure inside the same language

> generating strings and passing them into eval like for example in Python

Python has become a pinata for language enthusiasts? Python lets you pin a decorator on a function, get the AST (a data structure AFAIK), manipulate it in a sane fashion in Python, compile it, return the result. No string munching eval require

I'm all for Lisp but this just isn't convincing

parent marmaduke 7 years ago

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