Homoiconicity

//ˌhəʊ.məʊˌaɪ.kɒˈnɪ.sɪ.ti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A property of some programming languages, in which the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself. uncountable

    "Homoiconicity is a feature of a programming language system that denotes that a computer program has the same form as the data that are input and output by the program."

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"Homoiconicity is a feature of a programming language system that denotes that a computer program has the same form as the data that are input and output by the program."

Etymology

From homoiconic (“self-representing”) + -icity.

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