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Sean Williams: Named and Typed Homoiconicity - λC 2016

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Programming languagesLanguage design and type systemsFunctional programming

Sean Williams discusses the concept of homoiconicity, exploring how to design languages where code and data share the same representation.

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What people say. Recommended as a great discussion on homoiconicity and creating new syntax within a language.

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On “Why are homoiconic languages so rare?”

A really good discussion on the topic is here: link to this video I think what would be the main goal is to be able to create new syntax for your language in your language and this syntax is no different to the already existing syntax. An interesting take on it, that I just found is this here: link to this video
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