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		teddyh on May 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ECMAScript 4: The Missing Version > What the compiler has internally after digesting the source, but before generating code. Choose some schema and emit json or something. You mean the parsed Abstract Syntax Tree; AST. The next step would obviously be that people choose to start programming directly in the AST form. And now you have created Lisp.

JoeAltmaier on May 30, 2020 [–]

Denied. The next step is not pretending everybody wants to be a compiler internals expert. Programming languages are two or three orders closer to human understanding.

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