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It shouldn't. 'Assembly' is the textual code, 'assembler' is the tool used to convert the text to machine code. I don't think the name is worth an argument, but
by andars 10y ago
It shouldn't. 'Assembly' is the textual code, 'assembler' is the tool used to convert the text to machine code. I don't think the name is worth an argument, but your suggestion is no more correct than that is already in the title.
- Annatar 10y agoConsidering I spent my youth writing assembler code, I find it pretty upsetting someone from the internet lecturing me on what I was deeply involved with is called. I think I know what I was writing.
- Joeboy 10y agoI don't think anybody is claiming it's not called assembler, just that it's also / mostly called assembly. fwiw I wrote some [machine code via mnemonics] in the '80s (admittedly not lots) and assembly sounds more normal to me.
- andars 10y agoIt's a dangerous business, going onto the internet. You step into a site, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing what you might hear.