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• sigjuice 8y ago
  “Source-to-source” is redundant. You can just shorten this to “compiler”.
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  • pawelmurias 8y ago
    It's not redundant. A "source-to-source" compiler isn't a "source-to-machine code" compiler
    • sigjuice 8y ago
      It 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