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The code is represented internally as an AST of regular Scheme objects. Since Scheme represents both code and data using [S-expressions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression), our compiler does not (in general) have to use custom abstract data types to store the code as would be the case with many other languages.
TODO: move reader section up here??
Programs are linked with the necessary Scheme libraries and the Cyclone runtime library to create an executable:
TODO: have another diagram that illustrates the compiled file contains a mix of generated C code, and runtime (with primitives, gc, helper functions, environments, etc)??
<img src="images/runtime.png" alt="Diagram of files linked into a compiled executable">
## Source-to-Source Transformations