[Info-vax] Memory Safe Programming Languages

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/7/2024 6:29 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:37:18 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> If language X is transpiled into language Y (instead of compiled to
>> native object code), then it is very much possible for X compiler to
>> prevent something that Y compiler allows. X can be memory safe even
>> though Y is not.
> 
> The same applies very much to machine code, of course. That’s why we don’t
> need a separate term “transpile” to distinguish the process from what
> “compile” does.

The convention (today) is:

compile = transform to lower level language
transpile = transform to same level language

It is what it is.

Arne