Reading Paul Graham's essays on programming languages one would think that Lisp macros are the only way to go. As a busy developer, working on other platforms, I have not had the privilege of using...

A claim that I recall being repeated in the Clojure for Lisp Programmers videos is that a great weakness of the earlier Lisps, particularly Common Lisp, is that too much is married to the lis...

I was trying to understand the Wikipedia article on homoiconity, but it's too verbose and does not explain the main theory behind the word concisely. I should add that I'm not a native English spea...

Lisp has the property of being homoiconic, that is, the representation of code used by the language implementation (lists) is also available to, and idiomatically used by, programs that want to rep...

Homoiconicity in Lisp is easy to see: (+ 1 2) is both the function call to + with 1, 2 as arguments, as well as being a list containing +, 1, and 2. It is simultaneously both code and data. In ...

This is a follow up to my previous question. I’m not convinced that Lisp code is as Homoiconic as machine code on a Von Neumann architecture. It seems obvious to me that in both cases code is...

While I may incorrectly interpret the concept of homoiconicity, I've understood it as 'code being data'. So, I can write code like this: (def subject "world") (def helo '(str "Hello " subject)) ...

By definition the word homoiconic means: Same representation of code and data In LISP this means that you could have a quoted list and evaluate it, so (car list) would be the function and (cd...

I will be forward in admiting that my knowledge of Lisp is extremely minimal. However I am extremely interested in the language and plan to begin seriously learning it in the near future. My unders...

Isn't it possible to treat functions in Scheme as any other list? Basically, what I want do to is something like this: (define (foo) "hello") (cdr foo) ; or similar, should return the list ((foo...

Someone is trying to sell Lisp to me, as a super powerful language that can do everything ever, and then some. Is there a practical code example of Lisp's power?(Preferably alongside equival...