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sigjuice
7y ago
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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.
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garmaine
7y ago
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront
sigjuice
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7y ago
“Source-to-source” is redundant. You can just shorten this to “compiler”.
pawelmurias
7y ago
It's not redundant. A "source-to-source" compiler isn't a "source-to-machine code" compiler
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chrisseaton
7y ago
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The word ‘transpiler’ has been used in academic literature since at least the late 60s.
sigjuice
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7y ago
It 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.
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