Alex Queiroz wrote:
On 9/25/06, Ch. A. Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Henning Thielemann wrote: > assembly language (Assembler ist deutsch :-) for mysterious reasons it entered the English world.
'Assembly' is a language. 'Assembler' is a program.
All this is absolutely essential for the progress of Humanity... But, anyway, "Assembler" was the official name of the assembly language of IBM 360/370 if I am not mistaken. And I believe that it infiltrated die Deutsche Sprache therefrom. Good followers of Konrad Duden called a compiler: Uebersetzer, so perhaps the assemblers had here and there some Wagnerian names as well... (For the CDC mainframes the assembly language was called Compass [Comprehensive Assembler]. It was a 7648764GL. You could program in it almost like in Lisp thanks to some very exquisite macros, and add another set of macros which performed some type checking and optimized the register allocation. People who used it got famous (as M. Veltman, Nobel prize in physics), or got mad.) OK, who next?... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe