The homoiconicity is important. Python and ECMAScript (don't use "JavaScript", it's a trademark of Oracle's) are not homoiconic. Consider this Monte translation

The homoiconicity is important. Python and ECMAScript (don't use "JavaScript", it's a trademark of Oracle's) are not homoiconic. Consider this Monte translation of OP's blog post: https://github.com/monte-language/typhon/blob/master/mast/fun/symbolic.mt.md https://github.com/monte-language/typhon/blob/master/mast/fu... The main feature present in Lisps and in Monte but not in Python nor ECMAScript is quasiquotation. ES has template literals, and Python 3 has f-strings, but neither language can use them for pattern-matching, only value-building.