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It's a type of compiler. Just like a truck is a type of vehicle, and a car is another type of vehicle.
by tlrobinson 8y ago
It's a type of compiler. Just like a truck is a type of vehicle, and a car is another type of vehicle.
- omeid2 8y agoThey both have four wheels and transport atoms. Why do you think it is helpful to be unambiguous between atoms that make up a human or atoms of any goods in the back of a truck? /s
- monocasa 8y agoExcept that there's a true formal (in fact legal) distinction between a car and a truck (they have different emissions standards). The whole distinction between a 'transpilers' and other compilers on the other hand is 'what is the user going to do with the output'.
- tlrobinson 8y agoThat's not the disinction I've seen. I like Wikipedia's: > translates between programming languages that operate at approximately the same level of abstraction That's fairly straightforward, though a bit subjective (which doesn't preclude a word from having meaning)