How to Use assembly language in a Sentence
assembly language
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At just 6,955 lines of assembly language—Microsoft's low-level 6502 code talked almost directly to the processor.
—ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
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Instead of Pascal or assembly language, Swyft's ROM operating system was primarily written in Forth.
—Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
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What began as low-level programming using assembly language—which is as close as programmers can get to machine code instructions—evolved into Java, Python, C, JavaScript, and the other programming languages of today.
—IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2020
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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
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The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch the personal computer revolution.
—ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
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