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What's the simplest example out there to explain the difference between Parse Trees and Abstract Syntax Trees?

To my understanding, a parser creates a parse tree, and then discards it thereafter. However, it can also pop out an abstract syntax tree, which the compiler supposedly makes use of. I'm under the ...
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How do I traverse a tree without using recursion?

I have a very large in memory node tree and need to traverse the tree. Passing the returned values of each child node to their parent node. This has to be done until all the nodes have their data ...