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Strictly speaking it's a transpiler, but honestly the delta between the target language (Go) and the source language (BASIC) is very fluffy and wooly, from what

by fao_ 1y ago

Strictly speaking it's a transpiler, but honestly the delta between the target language (Go) and the source language (BASIC) is very fluffy and wooly, from what I remember from my PL theory days the distinction was always fuzzy enough that people used whatever term felt right to them. An example off the top of my head — Chicken Scheme (call-cc.org) calls itself a compiler but it's target language is C

shakna 1y ago
"Transpile" is a shortening of the older term "trans-compile". [0] It's a subset. All transpilers are compilers. Not all compilers are transpilers. [0] Amiga BASIC called itself a transcompiler, from memory.
- fao_ 1y ago
  yes, that's correct :)