Are you aware of Lisp? In Lisp programs were never "text". They are written directly as trees which are evaluated as part of the program execution. The trees th

Are you aware of Lisp? In Lisp programs were never "text". They are written directly as trees which are evaluated as part of the program execution. The trees themselves can be written via text, e.g. using s-expressions which are a tiny minimal way to represent trees as text, but they could also be generated via code (called macros) or written in some other way entirely. This is fundamental to understanding Lisp and one of the reasons "programs are text" people are often put off at first.