Comment by satiated_grue
Comment by satiated_grue 9 days ago
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_Syst...
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=zos-assem...
Seems like they always start with "the assembler language," which I take as "the language of the assembler," and then they sometimes get sloppy after that. I've never heard someone say "assembler language" (or maybe I just tuned it out.)