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Assembly languages in general, of any architecture. Use with the particular processor’s tag as appropriate.

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Why are assemblers called assemblers?

Please note, this is not about the first use of the word assembly (*2), not even assembly language(*3), in history, but use of the term assembler for the program instead of translator. … Of course I'm not the first to ask so, there's for example a similar question on SoftwareEngineering.SE: 'Why is Assembly Language called "Assembly"?' (*4). …
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