As someone who's been writing assembly language for decades going back to Univacs, most people used "assembler" as shorthand for "assembly language" or even "as

As someone who's been writing assembly language for decades going back to Univacs, most people used "assembler" as shorthand for "assembly language" or even "assembler language". It's usually quite unambiguous. Here are examples of such usage, from 1967 and more recent: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/asm/C28-6514-5_IBM_System_360_Assembler_Language_Level_E_F_Dec67.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/asm/C28-6514-5_IBM_Syst... https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=zos-assembler-language https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=zos-assem...