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by xaellison 764 days ago
The whole point of homoiconicity is that a language (lisp) is implemented in itself. This is lisp implemented in python (not itself).
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I thought the point of homoiconicity was essentially runtime reflection and evaluation of programs constructed at runtime, i.e. code is a first class datatype in the language.

I don't think these properties imply much about the underlying implementation of the language.