The official name of the assembler for 360/370 was BAL (basic assembly
language). I wrote code in it back in prehistoric times <g>.
Murray Gross
Brooklyn College
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote:
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?...
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