'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity%|%Homoiconicity]'''  Is is a property of some programming languages in which the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself, from the Greek words ''homo'' meaning the same and ''icon'' meaning representation. This makes metaprogramming easier than in a language without this property.”


   ''If a program can't rewrite its own code, what good is it?'':   -- http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html%|%Mel Kaye%|%, the archetypal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Programmer%|%Real Programmer%|%.


** See Also **

   [Code is data]:   

   [Data is code]:   

   [Code is data is code]:   

   [{Tcl the Misunderstood} {Hacker News} {2014 01 16}%|%Hacker News], {2014 01 16}:   

   [https://blogs.oracle.com/blue/entry/homoiconic_languages%|%Homoiconic Languages], true blue, 2007-04-19:   Completely misinterprets the nature of `{}` and lists.


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