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by zmonx 3044 days ago
Please note that the creators of Julia no longer call it homoiconic [1].

The fact that you can access the AST in a language is not sufficient to make it homoiconic. There are several programming languages like Julia that let you access the AST yet are not (conventionally) considered homoiconic.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31733766/in-what-sense-a...

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Oh, I didn't realize that. Thanks!