[taeric]

Maybe? Many languages can possibly expose an AST abstraction that you can use to achieve the same results, but you will have to resort to a new syntax to make that work. Compare with https://taeric.github.io/CodeAsData.html, where you can take the normal syntax of a function, but use it to get something else.

That is to say, the "quote" form in lisp is far more than just a string template, which is what it often turns into in other languages. That, or you build up a bunch of structs that you don't normally see.