Yeah, middle clicking on the page to start a scroll got weird as well. In defense of why-homoiconicity-is-cool: it's useful to build pipelines of things in cod

Yeah, middle clicking on the page to start a scroll got weird as well. In defense of why-homoiconicity-is-cool: it's useful to build pipelines of things in code. Imagine if you had a series of functions that manipulate an audio signal. You could create a pipeline of these on the fly just by putting the functions in a list, and then reflecting the data against it. You can imagine exposing this to a user - they check some boxes saying what features they want, and then the pipeline gets assembled for them. This would be do-able but laborious in Java. Javascript and iolanguage are homoiconoic language without the parens emphasis.