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Unlike other languages at the time and also modern languages, Lisp is homoiconic, that is, Lisp source code is data that can be manipulated
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by the program itself. This gives Lisp powerful metaprogramming capabilities through the use of macros which modify the program data at compile
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time. Therefore, Lisp source code directly represents the program as a tree without extra superfluous syntax
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time. Therefore, Lisp source code directly represents the program as a [tree](abstract_syntax_tree.md) without extra superfluous syntax
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(as in mainstream [programming languages](programming_language.md)).
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A Lisp can be built on a basic set of primitives such as `cons`, `car`, `cdr`, `lambda`, `apply`, `eval`, `eq`, `quote` and others (as described in the
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