On 09/10/2017 10:22 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > A very good question indeed! Does anyone know?
Wikipedia gives credit to Kathleen Booth in 1947 developing an assembler for the ARC2 at the UofL. EDSAC had one in 1949. Then there was SAP (Symbolic Assembly Program) and SOAP (Symbolic Optimizing Assembly Program for the IBM 650 (ca. 1954?). Let's just say it's one of those obvious applications, especially if you've ever spent time hand-assembling code. --Chuck
