> I guess the answer is (as always!) to use a purely homoiconic Lisp dialect, so you get the best of both worlds but that's asking a lot of statisticians. For

> I guess the answer is (as always!) to use a purely homoiconic Lisp dialect, so you get the best of both worlds but that's asking a lot of statisticians. For what it's worth, Julia is homoiconic and "underneath" the Matlab-like syntactic exterior, quite a lot like scheme.