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No, it wasn’t. “Transpile” is not a real word. There is no need to desecrate the first ever C++ compiler.
by sigjuice 8y ago
No, it wasn’t. “Transpile” is not a real word. There is no need to desecrate the first ever C++ compiler.
- garmaine 8y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront
- sigjuice 8y ago“Source-to-source” is redundant. You can just shorten this to “compiler”.
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- pawelmurias 8y agoIt's not redundant. A "source-to-source" compiler isn't a "source-to-machine code" compiler
- sigjuice 8y agoIt is redundant. See page 1 of most compiler books. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools Simply stated, a compiler is a program that can read a program in one language - the source language - and translate it into an equivalent program in another language - the target language Engineering a Compiler Compilers are computer programs that translate a program written in one language into a program written in another language
- chrisseaton 8y agoThe word ‘transpiler’ has been used in academic literature since at least the late 60s.
- sigjuice 8y agoIt has been (mis)used in a very tiny amount of academic literature. It obviously did not catch on for what one might only hope were good reasons. There is no good reason to promote this now.