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For the same reasons you might ever want a more specific term? What about assemblers or disassemblers? Given a suitably broad definition of compiler that inclu

• masklinn 9y ago
  > For the same reasons you might ever want a more specific term? I asked why you might want this here and there's been no answer yet. Having a term for something you don't need or want to know isn't actually useful. > What about assemblers or disassemblers? Given a suitably broad definition of compiler that includes transpilers, are they not also included? Wouldn't the same arguments apply? Because these are actually useful qualifier, in the same way that "a C compiler" is a useful qualifier.