Assembly Language
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Use caselow-level system programming and hardware control
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Assembly Language

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Low-level programming language with strong correspondence between language instructions and machine code.

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low-level programming languageUnverifiedHighFresh1

translates to

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machine codeUnverifiedHighFresh1

uses mnemonic

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human-readable instruction namesUnverifiedHighFresh1

requires

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assembler programUnverifiedHighFresh1

architecture dependent

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processor architecture specificUnverifiedHighFresh1

primary use case

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low-level system programming and hardware controlUnverifiedHighFresh1

used in

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embedded systems programmingUnverifiedHighFresh1
operating system kernelsUnverifiedHighFresh1
device driver developmentUnverifiedHighFresh1

alternative to

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machine code programmingUnverifiedHighFresh1

performance characteristic

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high execution speedUnverifiedHighFresh1

programming paradigm

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imperative programmingUnverifiedModerateFresh1

first appeared

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1940sUnverifiedModerateFresh1

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C programming languageUnverifiedModerateFresh1

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