Talk:Machine code monitor

Page move

Machine code monitor → Machine language monitor - Outside of Wikipedia mirrors (and in my own personal experience) the latter term is far more common. I asked about this on the article Talk page and no one objected in about a week. I can't move it myself since there is already a page at the target. Crotalus horridus (TALK • CONTRIBS) 22:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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• Support Seems reasonable to me. Stan 13:47, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
• Oppose The function of the program is to monitor machine code not a machine language. --Philip Baird Shearer 13:09, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

The term "machine language monitor" (or "ML monitor") was far more common than "machine code monitor", at least as far as the Commodore versions went. I propose that the page be moved to Machine language monitor. Since this article is a stub and the talk page appears disused, I will perform the page move in a day or two if no one objects. Crotalus horridus (TALK ● CONTRIBS) 12:49, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I would argue that the program monitors code which has been through an assembler or a compiler into the machine code of the processor. A computer language is a higher level concept of which were first introduced widly in the 1950s when it was realised that a programming language like FORTRAN could be used to translate symbolic ideas into machine code to make it easier for humans to conceptualise the instructions. However looking at Google returns, I can see that others use the term "machine language" for "machine code" perhapse it is a regional/national thing in English.

As for how common the terms are a guick Google returns:

• about 643 English pages for "Machine language monitor" -wikipedia
• about 770 English pages for "Machine code monitor" -wikipedia

So nether term is common, and "machine language monitor" is not "far more common".

-- Philip Baird Shearer 13:09, 8 January 2006 (UTC)