Mark Shuttleworth on the future of Ubuntu

> The only C++ compiler I've ever heard of that used a C compiler as its  
code generator was Cfront

I have some faint recollections that some other C++ compilers were derived 
from that and then there was also Glockenspiel C++ and stuff using the EDG 
C++ frontend like Comeau C++.


> (and even that was quite unusual: it wasn't a preprocessor in any sense, 
in that it did full translation and just  happened to emit C code:

Yes, sorry my terminology was bad.  But isn't this also how Vala works?