Saturday, January 21, 2023

Collection of quotes about assembly language

This post is a collection of quotes about assembly language. There are 3 quotes listed below. License: CC BY-SA 3.0

1. "Assembly language... is any low-level programming language with a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions." (Wikipedia: Assembly language, 12.29.22 UTC 22:05)

2. "Assembly code is converted into executable machine code by a utility program referred to as an assembler." (Wikipedia: Assembly language, 12.29.22 UTC 22:05)

3. "In the first decades of computing, it was commonplace for both systems programming and application programming to take place entirely in assembly language. While still irreplaceable for some purposes, the majority of programming is now conducted in higher-level interpreted and compiled languages." (Wikipedia: Assembly language, 12.29.22 UTC 22:05)