On: An Intro to Compilers

[sigjuice]

Page 35 of this paper has this sentence.

One can also envisage a "transpiler" capable of converting a program from one such style into another with considerable generality.

Are there any other known citations of the term "transpiler"?

[chrisseaton → sigjuice]

Yes, there is also this book from 1999, which talks about a Pascal to C 'transpiler' around as early as 1989.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vKQSBwAAQBAJ&pg=PR8&lpg=...

[sigjuice → chrisseaton]

The actual author of p2c has the good taste to not call it a transpiler. https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/p2c/historic/daves.index-2012J...