[Info-vax] VMS Software: New US Mailing Address

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/24/2022 10:12 PM, Richard Maher wrote:
> On 25/10/2022 8:11 am, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 10/24/2022 9:15 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> Python, PHP, Perl, none of these are compiled so what would you 
>>> pre-compile to?
>>
>> A Cobol pre-compiler compiles to Cobol, so a Python/PHP pre-compiler
>> would of course compile to Python/PHP.
>>
>> Since they are not compiled it would probably not be called
>> pre-compiler, but transpiler.
>>
>> So: a Python/PHP transpiler would of course transpile to Python/PHP.
>>
>> But really same thing.
>>
>> AFAIK such a thing has never been made.
> 
> I heard of Babel having to dumb down Javascript ES6 to ES5

Transpiling ESx->ESy and TS-ESz are common.

When I said "never been made" I meant specifically for
pre-processing embedded SQL.

Arne