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Julia [1] has 3 and 5, and almost 1 (it has very few built-in syntax sugars and a uniform way of invoking macros). It's targeted at scientists, so 4 is not an option, as infix syntax is a hard requirement for mathematics.

[1] http://julialang.org/

Edit: Elixir [2] is homoiconic as well, with even more uniform syntax (though it doesn't have special matrix syntax).

[2] http://elixir-lang.org/



Elixir is not homoiconic. They used to claim that based on a very unusual definition of homoiconicity, but they have removed those claims from their materials.


But Julia is, or not? If yes, why? (The only difference, as far as I can see, is that Julia AST is considerably simpler than Elixir's (a Julia struct with 3 fields, only two of which need to be present: head and args). Though admittedly, that counts a lot.


+1 for Elixir, really excited about it. Especially knowing it is built (like Clojure) on a very solid battle tested VM.




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