Meaning of homoiconic | Babel Free
Examples
“Instead, the homoiconic paradigm draws from the mathematics of computability theory. […] In the case of a homoiconic programming language, the program⟳ processes itself, performing mechanical reductions on the application until there is nothing left except the answer⟳.”
“Clojure and other languages from the Lisp family are homoiconic. In a homoiconic language, the source code of a program⟳ is represented as a plain data structure⟳.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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