Not trying to be pedantic or a dick, but you should refer to that language as assembly, not assembler. It is a non trivial difference as assembly refers to the

Not trying to be pedantic or a dick, but you should refer to that language as assembly, not assembler. It is a non trivial difference as assembly refers to the language and assembler refers to the software written to parse assembly commands into machine code (binary strings defined in the given machine's instruction set that are meaningful to the processor). Otherwise it's similar to referring to the language C as Compiler, which is just silly :) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176138/assembly-vs-assembler http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176138/assembly-vs-assem... Also, to your point, agreed. It took several years before we could actually fly high level, compiled languages in space, the first being HAL/S on the Shuttle (completed in 1975). https://www.cs.toronto.edu/XPL/hal.html https://www.cs.toronto.edu/XPL/hal.html Cheers