> I am saying that S-Expression aren't any kind of 'primary' representation of your program in a modern Lisp. Especially a compiled one. Besides pointing out l

> I am saying that S-Expression aren't any kind of 'primary' representation of your program in a modern Lisp. Especially a compiled one. Besides pointing out like others have that pretty much all Lisps have an interpreter that stores programs as s-expressions, why do you think compilation makes making a DSL in Lisp harder? Do you think you somehow need a parser all of a sudden? > My point was that homoiconicity is a surface level property that you could bolt on to eg C or Cobol, via a simple pre-processor, and it wouldn't change those languages much. Writing in C instead of assembly does not make your processor more powerful. Similarly, when designing languages, homoiconicity allows you to work directly with the AST in a way that is most ergonomically simple. Saying this is a surface level thing is an understatement