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  1. compiler friends: is there a good name for a "lowered abstract syntax tree" that captures a program in terms of the semantics of the target platform, but doesn't go as far as e.g. bytecode? this would be a step between a more typical AST and code generation.
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      Julia calls these two trees the "surface syntax AST" and the "lowered form" or "intermediate representation (IR)" which makes sense, I just wonder what other people and compilers call them
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