"homoiconic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2015, Robert Fischer, Java Closures and Lambda, Apress, →ISBN, page 190:",
          "text": "Instead, the homoiconic paradigm draws from the mathematics of computability theory. […] In the case of a homoiconic programming language, the program processes itself, performing mechanical reductions on the application until there is nothing left except the answer.",
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          "ref": "2017, Eduardo Diaz, Shantanu Kumar, Akhil Wali, Clojure: High Performance JVM Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 392:",
          "text": "Clojure and other languages from the Lisp family are homoiconic. In a homoiconic language, the source code of a program is represented as a plain data structure.",
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