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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by monocasa on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:33PM (#17087310)
I mean, it should exist according to wiki's rules since there are so many people using the term. Wiki intentionally doesn't try to independently verify any research, but just serves as a collation of ideas.

What I would do is ask 'what part there is any different than any other compiler?'

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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by tlrobinson on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:38PM (#17087336)
It's a type of compiler. Just like a truck is a type of vehicle, and a car is another type of vehicle.
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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by omeid2 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:34PM (#17087616)
They both have four wheels and transport atoms.

Why do you think it is helpful to be unambiguous between atoms that make up a human or atoms of any goods in the back of a truck? /s

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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by monocasa on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:17PM (#17087870)
Except that there's a true formal (in fact legal) distinction between a car and a truck (they have different emissions standards). The whole distinction between a 'transpilers' and other compilers on the other hand is 'what is the user going to do with the output'.
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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by tlrobinson on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:18PM (#17088195)
That's not the disinction I've seen. I like Wikipedia's:

> translates between programming languages that operate at approximately the same level of abstraction

That's fairly straightforward, though a bit subjective (which doesn't preclude a word from having meaning)

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