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by Andoryuuta 952 days ago
Yep. I don't believe it's mentioned in the linked article, but Herb has mentioned in other articles/talks that cppfront is intentionally named after / following the same model as C++, which originally had a C++ to C transpiler named cfront[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront