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In article <4c0b234f$1$fuzhry+tra$mr2ice@news.patriot.net>,
 Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:

>       The last time you cited something that you claimed to have
> been written in machine language it turned out to have been written in
> assembler.

As one who was writing programs in 1957, I can assure you that the two 
terms were then used interchangeably.

Art Evans
Old Codger