There's more to avoiding calling Lisp homoiconic because it's an inaccurate or incomplete characterization. As Shriram Krishnamurthi nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq305uvc2zhvfrxr8ky2f8utmulyvk8uw5veech37smhzc2453s20sew8atg (nprofile…8atg) points out, this misses the point of why Lisp languages are different. To capture this he introduces the concept of "bicamerality".
https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/bicameral-not-homoiconic
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