In particular, inasmuch as it's meant to be some kind of characteristic of Lispy syntaxes, their definitions never actually exclude the languages that (I know) their gut tells them are not homoiconic. In other words, I call BS. »
Agreed. Given the isomorphism (ability to transform either representation losslessly to the other), the differences are performance and aesthetics. LISP beats JS but there’s probably a more optimal answer using traditional syntax.
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I don't know why we're arguing aesthetics. I never brought up or disputed aesthetics. I'm one of the people behind
@racketlang for goodness sake! And I built the original Racket s-exp and macro system. Being 'splained on these topics by paren newbies is pretty hilarious. » -
I asked for a DEFINITION of h11y. I've gotten a bunch of non-definitions, definitions-that-don't-define-the-right-set, "then you tell me how"s, etc. And now we've shifted the goalposts completely to "how well would you do string concats". Funny! »
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