LispInSmallPieces/docs/new.md

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This doesn't really look like the read/analyze/compile passes that one expects of a modern Lisp.

Reading converts the source code into a list of immutable values in the low-level AST of the system. Reading and analysis must be combined if there are to be reader macros (which I want to support).

... and then a miracle occurs ...

Compilation is the process of turning the AST into javascript.