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'Transpiler' goes back long before the Javascript/CoffeScript world. Pascal/C and FORTRAN/C have a history of 'transpilation' products. It's just short-hand fo
by kitd 11y ago
'Transpiler' goes back long before the Javascript/CoffeScript world. Pascal/C and FORTRAN/C have a history of 'transpilation' products.
It's just short-hand for source-to-source compiler and IMHO has been used enough to warrant its inclusion in a programmer's dictionary.
- pjmlp 11y agoYes they have, and we called them compilers. Can you dig me a 70's paper with the transpiler word on it?
- Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 11y agoThere's this paper from 1964, shortly before the last paragraph. http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/1/28.full.pdf+html http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/1/28.full.pdf+htm...