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This should not have been down-voted. We are talking about translation from C -> Go and C++ -> Rust (which are both in the opposite direction of the definition

• ldrndll 12y ago
  > You are technically correct in that compile already implicates a translation, but we usually use that term [ie compile] refering to a translation into a lower level language and not another language at the same level. The way I understood what he wrote, he was making the same point as you. Presumably the people downvoting you had a similar interpretation of what he wrote.
• vanderZwan 12y ago
  I agree that your comment added value to the discussion, and gave a counter-vote. However, arguably the term could make more sense there, if we ignore the earlier definition and instead assume "trans" is short for "transcendent", as in "climbing to a higher level". If we then simplify that to "compile from one language to another of roughly equal or higher level", it becomes a useful word to indicate a specific subset of ways one can do compilation. Of course, I'm completely pulling this out of my ass and I might piss off actual CompSci people who use very specific and strict definitions in their papers (kind of like how some get annoyed with the procedure/function mixup), so take this with a grain of salt.