This is conflating slightly different things, though? One is that you can build a program that does the same thing. The other is that you can do the same thin

This is conflating slightly different things, though? One is that you can build a program that does the same thing. The other is that you can do the same things with the language. There are special forms in LISP, but that is a far cry from the amount of magic that can only be done in the compiler or at runtime for many languages out there.