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The name BAL hasn't been used outside of applications shops in the 1980s. Everybody for the last 25 or 30 years just calls it assembler. Not assembly, not assembly language, just "assembler".[[Special:Contributions/84.228.198.178|84.228.198.178]] ([[User talk:84.228.198.178|talk]]) 18:53, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

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No, it was not only extended mnemonics that made Basic Assembler Language different than MACRO Assemblers, it was the flexible MACRO support.

IBM has called MACRO assembler: Full Assembler

Basic Assembler Language is assembler language without full MACRO support.

Basic Assembler language can still be taught in classes that teach assembler without teaching the MACROs needed for zOS, TSO, CMS, CP, zVSE, CICS, etc. Student's first class is to learn assembler. Other non-BAL instruction will be needed for the MACROs for the system that a student might want to write code for.

[[User:Somitcw|Somitcw]] ([[User talk:Somitcw|talk]]) 16:17, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

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