@lindsey 'What, if anything, is an emulator?'

@joshua This, but with "transpiler", is also what you commented on my blog post complaining about the word "transpiler" nine years ago

@lindsey The worst part of that is that I did not even get that snowclone from the original "what, if anything, is a parrot", but instead, I got it from @tom7 's classic, https://tom7.org/papers/epsilon.pdf , which must have been relatively fresh in my mind at the time

@joshua @tom7 @lindsey this meme has its roots in animal taxonomy! see "what, if anything, is a rabbit" (wood 1957) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2406062?seq=1

@joshua @tom7 @lindsey ...wait hang on you did say this but i'm pretty sure it's rabbit and not parrot (i can't find one about parrots)