cognitive psychology. PhD 
Are there any good frameworks/papers/etc. for source-to-source optimizing-compiler passes? e.g. copy propagation, dead code elimination but for ASTs instead of IRs.
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has a rep for being hard to work with though...
Mostly interested in seeing if there are any good ideas I can steal. But I think beyond the basics (e.g. tree visitors), most of what's hard for me isn't covered here. Dealing with closures, decorators, comprehensions, generators, **kwargs.
