Assembly language

An assembly language is a low-level programming language for computers, microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other programmable devices in which each statement corresponds to a single machine language instruction. An assembly language is specific to a certain computer architecture, in contrast to most high-level programming languages, which may be more portable. Assembly Language uses 'mnemonic codes' or 'symbols'. Instead of remembering the ex... More

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