Using parens just makes manipulating the AST easier, but doesn't necessarily remove the homoiconocity of a language. I've barely done any lisp programming, thou

Using parens just makes manipulating the AST easier, but doesn't necessarily remove the homoiconocity of a language. I've barely done any lisp programming, though I have done a fair amount of work with AST's and compilers. S-exprs lend to thinking of the structure of the code as data, useful for "lisp-ing". Personally I don't care to write in lisp since I loose track of parens way too readily. This project might be very handy! In the meantime I've come to view Julia as my goto lisp. Quite fun to be able to write hygienic macros, but still have a mostly familiar imperative syntax for common tasks. Actually, the disciplined (read limited) usage of macros in Julia is a big draw for me, since I've heard too many horror stories of macro readers and spaghetti code in large lisp projects. Interesting look at elixir, I'll have to play with it sometime.