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@amszmidt @m3tti Larger context of that blog post (by Malcolm McCrimmon) is on the higher level concepts instead of the “syntax or not syntax” arguments.

Malcolm McCrimmon writes:
“Just as Lisp macros are powerful because they can operate on any Lisp code, including themselves, Smalltalk classes are powerful because they themselves are objects. Smalltalk, like Lisp, runs in the same context it’s written in. It’s objects all the way down.”
https://insearchofsecrets.com/2014/08/04/lisp-smalltalk-and-the-power-of-symmetry/

That was the reason why I originally posted a snippet to the blog post. Language as a data(flow) in itself, instead of a language for operating on a separate data(flow).