[kitd]

'Transpiler' goes back long before the Javascript/CoffeScript world. Pascal/C and FORTRAN/C have a history of 'transpilation' products.

It's just short-hand for source-to-source compiler and IMHO has been used enough to warrant its inclusion in a programmer's dictionary.

[pjmlp]

Yes they have, and we called them compilers.

Can you dig me a 70's paper with the transpiler word on it?

[Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd]

There's this paper from 1964, shortly before the last paragraph.

http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/7/1/28.full.pdf+htm...

[pjmlp]

Thanks, it seems I need to fix my stance on it.