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Late Prems, Mostly ([personal profile] premchaia_pre4) wrote in [personal profile] davidn 2012-09-06 06:57 am (UTC)

"compile" is valid, especially if the resulting source is in some way lower-level or more unstructured than the original. "translate" is also used, and in fact is official terminology in some languages even for source-to-object-code compilations: last I checked (I haven't kept up with the 2011 standard) the C++ standard specified that source code was organized into "translation units" that usually correspond to files but could theoretically be anything. "transpile" is a less common coinage presumably aiming to distinguish the case where the output is still human-readable; I find it ugly and mostly avoid it.

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