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	▲	AlotOfReading 2 hours ago
		`For bonus brownie points, here is a piece of trivia: the language is called assembly and the tool that translates it into executable machine code is called the assembler.` IBM has a long history of using "assembler" as a shorthand away to refer to languages. IBM was dominant enough historically that you'd find it used in all sorts of other places. It's bad terminology, but it's not wrong.