Re:Microcode: the place where hardware and software meet
by jonsen on Sunday March 10, 2013 @12:40PM
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Calling the language assembler might be considered potentially confusing and ambiguous, since this is also the name of the utility program that translates assembly language statements into machine code. However, this usage has been common among professionals and in the literature for decades.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembler_(computing)#Assembler