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Forth is also homoiconic (arguably more so than lisp) and it can be thought of as being purely vectors.

Forth's homoiconicity seems to be disputed: https://wiki.c2.com/?HomoiconicityClassification

You could see forth as just netstrings recursively. You evaluate the outermost netstring by unquoting and then doing a forth over the netstrings it contains.

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