Recursive transcompiling
Recursive Transcompiling is the process of applying the notion of Transcompiling recursively, to create a pipeline of transformations which repeatedly turn one technology into another.
By repeating this process, one can turn A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> F and then back into A(v2). Some information will be preserved through this pipeline, from A -> A(v2), and that information (at an abstract level) demonstrates what each of the components A-F agree on.[1]
In each of the different versions that the Transcompiler pipeline produces, that information is preserved[2]. It might take on many different shapes and sizes, but by the time it comes back to A (v2), having been transcompiled 6 times in the pipeline above, the information returns to it's original state.
This information which survives the transform through each format, from A-F-A(v2), is (by definition) derivative content or derivative code.
- ^ Digital Research (1981): XLT86 - 8080 to 8086 Assembly Language Translator - User's Guide. Digital Research Inc, Pacific Grove ([1]).
- ^ Fowler, Martin (February 12, 2013). "Transparent Compilation". Retrieved February 13, 2013.