assembly language
noun
: a programming language that consists of instructions that are mnemonic codes for corresponding machine language instructions
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The software to control the IMPs was written on bare metal using the 516’s assembly language.
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ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2025
Eliminating the punch-card system To program a computer, early technicians wrote out tasks in assembly language—a human-readable way to write machine code, which is made up of binary numbers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Sep. 2024
Perhaps as fundamental as the birth of the IBM PC, the creation of Linux, or (for the more technically minded) the arrival of compilers that converted low-level software like machine code and assembly language into executable programs.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Decades after the tech went out of vogue, the FDS still uses assembly language and 16-bit words.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2024
Because of his growing fascination with technology, at 16, Borkowski opted to attend a technical high school, pursuing a technical diploma in electronics and learning about components, soldering, and assembly language.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Feb. 2024
This was because the software had to be rewritten in assembly language to hit the much smaller memory targets, and assembly language programming took much longer to write.
—Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2023
Because most viruses are written for Windows, reverse engineering them requires knowledge of x86 assembly language.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2013
So goto came out of assembly language.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2023
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ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2025
Eliminating the punch-card system To program a computer, early technicians wrote out tasks in assembly language—a human-readable way to write machine code, which is made up of binary numbers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Sep. 2024
Perhaps as fundamental as the birth of the IBM PC, the creation of Linux, or (for the more technically minded) the arrival of compilers that converted low-level software like machine code and assembly language into executable programs.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Decades after the tech went out of vogue, the FDS still uses assembly language and 16-bit words.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2024
Because of his growing fascination with technology, at 16, Borkowski opted to attend a technical high school, pursuing a technical diploma in electronics and learning about components, soldering, and assembly language.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Feb. 2024
This was because the software had to be rewritten in assembly language to hit the much smaller memory targets, and assembly language programming took much longer to write.
—Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2023
Because most viruses are written for Windows, reverse engineering them requires knowledge of x86 assembly language.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2013
So goto came out of assembly language.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2023
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