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Assembly language or assembly code is the most typical usage. There's nothing wrong with calling it assembler code either, but it's less common. Source: I star
by Stratoscope 10y ago
Assembly language or assembly code is the most typical usage. There's nothing wrong with calling it assembler code either, but it's less common.
Source: I started writing assembly code in 1968, over the years coding for Sigma 5/7, PDP-10, TI 9900, 6502, 8080, Z80, 8086, 68000, x86, and ARM. I occasionally saw it called assembler language, but less often than assembly language.
Update: As I think about it, there is a bit more nuance to the terminology that I remembered at first. While I do recall "assembler language" and "assembler code" as being infrequently used, "assembler" by itself has often been a common usage:
"I'm writing this in assembly code."
"I'm writing this in assembler."
Those were used fairly interchangeably, even by someone like me to whom "assembler code" sounded a bit off.
So you're definitely not wrong to call it "assembler". Where you're going wrong is claiming that "assembly code" is incorrect.
- Annatar 10y agoPick up any book from the '80's on learning assembler and you'll be hard pressed to find "assembly" anywhere, especially for MOS 6502, Z80 or MC68000.
- Stratoscope 10y agoMy goodness, if you really insist on arguing this point, here are a few books for you. 6502: https://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Programming-Lance-Leventhal/dp/007881216X https://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Programming-Lance-L... ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/documentation/programming/6502assembly/6502%20Assembly%20Language%20Programming.pdf Z80: http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/zilog/z80/Z80%20Assembly%20Language%20Programming%201979%20Leventhal.pdf http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/zilog/z80/Z80%20Assembly... https://archive.org/details/Zilog_Z80_assembly_language_programming_classic https://archive.org/details/Zilog_Z80_assembly_language_prog... 68000: http://dev-docs.atariforge.org/files/Asm_Lang_Prog_68K_Family.pdf http://dev-docs.atariforge.org/files/Asm_Lang_Prog_68K_Famil... https://www.amazon.com/68000-Family-Assembly-Language-Programming/dp/0534932754 https://www.amazon.com/68000-Family-Assembly-Language-Progra...
- chrisseaton 10y agoDonald Knuth calls it 'assembly' in The Art of Computer Programming, which he started to write in the early 1960s.
- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoWhen I was coding Z80 in the late 80s/early 90s (on the Amstrad CPC) it was always either "assembly language" or "assembler".