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who wants pasta in their computer?

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Is an assembler not a compiler for an assembly language?

Is saying "I wrote code in assembler" not functionally equivalent to saying "I wrote code in GCC?"

Note: this is a genuine question, not sarcasm.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

well, in my country (spain) assembler and assembly are basically used interchangeably, so i do that a lot. will take into account for future posts tho.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Anywhere I’ve actually seen it used , assembler and assembly were pretty much interchangeable. Assembly code is probably technically correct, but you could be writing code for the assembler so nobody will actually be confused. Per your example, you might say “I wrote code in MASM,” to reference a specific assembler. Again nobody that’s actually worked with any of this would bat an eye at the usage.

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