I 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

I 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.