assembly language
noun
: a programming language that consists of instructions that are mnemonic codes for corresponding machine language instructions
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Instead of Pascal or assembly language, Swyft's ROM operating system was primarily written in Forth.
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Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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
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
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
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Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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
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
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
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“Assembly language.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assembly%20language. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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