Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started transmitting again

Re:Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started tr... by Rooster61 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:07AM (#12854841)

Not trying to be pedantic or a dick, but you should refer to that language as assembly, not assembler. It is a non trivial difference as assembly refers to the language and assembler refers to the software written to parse assembly commands into machine code (binary strings defined in the given machine's instruction set that are meaningful to the processor).

Otherwise it's similar to referring to the language C as Compiler, which is just silly :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176138/assembly-vs-assem...

Also, to your point, agreed. It took several years before we could actually fly high level, compiled languages in space, the first being HAL/S on the Shuttle (completed in 1975).

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/XPL/hal.html

Cheers

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Re:Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started tr... by pjc50 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @10:39AM (#12855175)

This is the most pedantic thing I have seen in 2016.

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Re:Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started tr... by dom0 on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @11:15AM (#12855608)

I dunno how other !English languages handle it, but in German both are simply called Assembler. It would also seem that this distinction isn't generally made, due to the human ability to deduce meaning from context.

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Re:Abandoned in space in 1967, a US satellite has started tr... by pryelluw on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @02:34PM (#12857862)

You must be new to HN.

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