when I search for the term transpiler on google, the first hit is this wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler http://en.wikipedi

when I search for the term transpiler on google, the first hit is this wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler Relevant statement "A source-to-source compiler translates between programming languages that operate at approximately the same level of abstraction, while a traditional compiler translates from a higher level programming language to a lower level programming language."