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spdegabrielleyesterday at 10:51 PM1 replyview on HN

Bicameral, Not Homoiconic https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bicameral-not-h...


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GregBuchholztoday at 12:19 AM

Is Prolog bicameral? Because it has a `read` predicate? Is bicameral then just a matter of implementing a `read` function which returns a tree of tokens, which you could implement for C or Python? Which makes bicamerality a property of a library rather than a property of the language?