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		TheLoneWolfling on Sept 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Homoiconic Faq Is x86 machine code homoiconic? Or, generalizing, is any/all VN-arch machine code homoiconic? It's pretty obvious that (pure) Harvard-arch machine code isn't, but VN? (I'm talking about the interface here. Yes, I know that modern x86 processors are not really VN-arch internally. But they present the interface of a VN-arch processor to the programmer, which is what I mean here.)

geocar on Sept 21, 2014 [–]

I would argue: Yes.

When people write machine code, you'll note they find it very easy to resort to code-that-writes-code and data-as-code-templates.

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